Re: [fluka-discuss]: nucleus mass

From: paola sala <paola.sala_at_cern.ch>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:10:50 +0200

Dear Shirley, Alfredo,
if I may add something: one should add in the balance the residual
nucleus recoil energy, available in the RESNUC common. Target and
redisual masses are available as well in the common
Regards
Paola
On 04/27/2018 08:43 AM, Alfredo Ferrari wrote:
> Dear Shirley
>
> the Fluka interaction models assures energy and momentum conservation
> down to (almost) the computer precision. Typically the "errors" on
> energy/momentum conservation are of the order of 1E-13 or less wrt the
> initial state (total) energy (including target mass).
>
> In order to properly cross check energy conservation you should consider
> the "exact" mass of each individual isotope (initial and final state),
> which are in general different from A x atomic mass unit.
>
> Two things to be careful about:
>
> a) "nuclear" masses must be considered and not atomic ones, that is
>    atomic electron masses and their binding must be undone from the
>    atomic mass
> b) as already mentioned above, the individual mass excess of each given
>    isotope (that is the difference wrt A x amu) must be considered,
>    this is important because generally speaking nuclear reactions tend
>    to produce residuals which are less stable than the original target
>    nucleus therefore implying an apparent energy loss (that is energy
>    going into residual nucleus mass)
>
> Fluka has detailed tables with the experimental excess masses for some
> 4000 isotopes and those are the basis for the energy balance.
>
> Considering your example, the Fluka "nuclear" mass of 40-Ar is
> 37.21554 GeV and its "nuclear" excess mass (that is the difference wrt
> 1/12 of
> the 12-C "nuclear" mass) is -0.03401 GeV, the "nuclear" mass of
> 38-Ar is 35.35288 GeV and it excess mass is -0.03419 GeV, and the
> (lab) threshold for pi+ + 40-Ar -> pi+ + n + n + 38-Ar is
> 0.01653 GeV (the reaction Q is -0.01647) as you can calculate from the
> numbers above (and the pion and neutron masses), which is somewhat
> larger than 2 x neutron excess mass which is 0.01614, exactly by those
> ~400 keV that you (correctly) found apparently missing.
>
>              Hope this helps!
>                 Alfredo
>
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> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Shirley Li wrote:
>
>> Dear FLUKA users,
>>
>> I'm looking at pion inelastic interaction in argon and trying to
>> understand
>> the energy balance.  I'm wondering how are nucleus masses calculated
>> or what
>> database are they taken from?  In mgdraw, I record all secondary
>> particles
>> out of an inelastic interaction, including the residual nuclei, to
>> look at
>> the energy balance.
>>
>> For example, in the attached output file, the first reaction is pi
>> +40Ar ->
>> pi + 2n + 2 gamma + 38Ar.  If I include nucleus mass, i.e, m_40ar =
>> 39.96u &
>> u = 0.9315 GeV, the total energy before reaction is 38.0575 GeV.  The
>> total
>> energy after reaction is 38.0571 GeV, not an exact match.  And the
>> difference becomes larger when the residual nucleus has a smaller A. 
>>  I'm
>> not sure if the difference is because I used wrong nucleus masses.
>>
>> Thank you very much!
>>
>> Shirley
>>
>>

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