jzs-10736

Angular Distribution of Delta Electrons in SAGE Spectrometer using Geant4

 F. A. Ali1, H. J. Hassan1

1Physics Department, College of Education, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Original: 9 April 2017, Revised: 22 July 2018, Accepted: 12 September 2018, Published online: 20 December 2018

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.17656/jzs.10736

Abstract

This simulation work is intended to describe the angular distribution of (δ) electrons in a spectrometer that is designed for simultaneously measuring gamma-rays and electrons called SAGE Spectrometer using the Geant4 simulation toolkit. The angular distributions were identified for various target materials including lead, gadolinium, tin, aluminium and carbon. In heavy ion atom collision, the direct ionization of the target elements and the scattering of electron due to the Two-Centre Coulomb forces are the dominant contributions. The direction of (δ) electrons produced in a heavy ion collision hitting a heavy element target is strongly focused in the forward and backward directions with a large suppression at perpendicular angles. For light element targets the (δ)  electrons are almost entirely forward focused. This indicates that the distributions are (Z) dependent. The main features of the (δ)  electrons coming from SAGE spectrometer are characterized by looking at their angular distributions produced from a reaction between a Ca48 ion beam and a lead target.

Key Words: SAGE Spectrometer, delta electron Angular distribution

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