Abstract
Ascintillating optical fiber calorimeter (SOFCAL) is being developed by NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center for use in balloon-borne experiments to study the spectrum of high-energy cosmic rays and gamma rays. SOFCAL will not saturate for long exposures and the calorimeter willbe useful in emulsion chambers to study primary cosmic-ray nuclei with energies from 100 GeV to 1,000 TeV. The event generator FRITIOF was used to model the collision of a cosmic-ray projectile with a target nucleus inan emulsion chamber. The measurements of charged particles from the interaction in the emulsions are related to the energy of the primary cosmic ray nucleus-nucleus interaction, computer simulations of electromagnetic cascades allow computation of the energy ££y deposited indifferent regions of the calorimeter. The Monte Carlo program GEANT was used to model SOFCAL response to incident gamma rays and to compute the measure of energy deposition X£y in different layers ofthe calorimeter within the emulsion chamber. The partial coefficient o finelasticity kr defined by 1JE Y = kY E0 ,was computed for different energies Eo of primary cosmic rays. The were computed and compared with existing calorimeter data. Funding was provided by the NASA/University Joint Venture (JOVE) Program.
Recommended Citation
Murai, Kazuhiko; Sanchez, Carlos A.; and Wold, Donald C.
(1995)
"Using GEANT to Model Calrimeter Response for Electromagnetic Cascades from Nucleus-Nucleus Interactions in a Cosmic Ray Detector,"
Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science: Vol. 49, Article 27.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas/vol49/iss1/27
