From: Paola Sala (paola.sala@mi.infn.it)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2008 - 12:16:19 CET
Dear Lewis
Since you mention Fermi motion I suppose that your question regards both
elastic and quasi-elastic scattering.
Coherent elastic scattering on the whole nucleus is treated by fluka
as optical scattering by a gray disk.
Quasi-elastic scattering, that is elastic scattering on a target
nucleon leaving the target nucleus in an excited state, can be treated
in two ways depending on the projectile energy:
-- Below 5 GeV the PEANUT nuclear interaction model includes
quasi-elastic scattering just as one of the possible outcomes of the
microscopic treatment of nucleon-nucleus scattering. Therefore, Fermi
motion, Pauli blocking etc. are automatically included. NOTE that
PEANUT can be used also above its default threshold to cover all the
energy range. This is not yet the default in FLUKA, can be activated
through the PHYSICS card (see the release notes).
-- At higher energies, quasi-elastic is modeled by a parametrization of
experimental data. NOTE : this part will be eliminated as soon as the
PEANUT extension becomes the default.
Ciao
Paola
> All,
>
> I would like to know the analytic expression in the FLUKA code for the =
> double-differential cross section for small angle proton-nucleus =
> scattering where the proton loses a few percent of it's energy. Does =
> the code include nuclear Fermi motion? Thanks,
>
> Lewis Keller
>
Paola Sala
INFN Milano
tel. Milano +39-0250317374
tel. CERN +41-227679148
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