| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 165, 2017
Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics VIII (NPA8 2017)
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| Article Number | 01034 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716501034 | |
| Published online | 30 December 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716501034
A fast and complete GEANT4 and ROOT Object-Oriented Toolkit: GROOT
1 ELI-NP / IFIN-HH, Magurele, Romania
2 INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
3 Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi, Catania, Italy
4 Facoltà di Ingegneria e Architettura, Università Kore, Enna, Italy
* e-mail: dario.lattuada@eli-np.ro
Published online: 30 December 2017
Present and future gamma-beam facilities represent a great opportunity to validate and evaluate the cross-sections of many photonuclear reactions at near-threshold energies. Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are very important to evaluate the reaction rates and to maximize the detection efficiency but, unfortunately, they can be very cputime-consuming and in some cases very hard to reproduce, especially when exploring near-threshold cross-section. We developed a software that makes use of the validated tracking GEANT4 libraries and the n-body event generator of ROOT in order to provide a fast, realiable and complete MC tool to be used for nuclear physics experiments. This tool is indeed intended to be used for photonuclear reactions at γ-beam facilities with ELISSA (ELI Silicon Strip Array), a new detector array under development at the Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP). We discuss the results of MC simulations performed to evaluate the effects of the electromagnetic induced background, of the straggling due to the target thickness and of the resolution of the silicon detectors.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017
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