/************************************************************************** * Copyright(c) 1998-1999, ALICE Experiment at CERN, All rights reserved. * * * * Author: The ALICE Off-line Project. * * Contributors are mentioned in the code where appropriate. * * * * Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its * * documentation strictly for non-commercial purposes is hereby granted * * without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all * * copies and that both the copyright notice and this permission notice * * appear in the supporting documentation. The authors make no claims * * about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is * * provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. * **************************************************************************/ /* $Log$ Revision 1.1.2.1 2002/10/10 16:40:08 hristov Updating VirtualMC to v3-09-02 Revision 1.1 2002/10/08 13:53:17 morsch Gray particle generator, first commit. */ /* Generator for gray nucluons in pA interactions. Source is modelled by a relativistic Maxwell distributions. Original code by Ferenc Sikler */ #include "AliGenGrayParticles.h" #include "AliPDG.h" #include ClassImp(AliGenGrayParticles) AliGenGrayParticles::AliGenGrayParticles():AliGenerator(-1) { // Default constructor } AliGenGrayParticles::AliGenGrayParticles(Int_t npart) :AliGenerator(npart) { // Constructor fName = "GrayParticles"; fTitle = "Generator for gray particles in pA collisions"; SetPmax(); SetTarget(); SetNominalCmsEnergy(); SetTemperature(); } //____________________________________________________________ AliGenGrayParticles::~AliGenGrayParticles() { // Destructor } void AliGenGrayParticles::Init() { // // Initialization // Float_t kMass = TDatabasePDG::Instance()->GetParticle(kProton)->Mass(); fMomentum = fCMS/2. * fZTarget / fATarget; fBeta = fMomentum / TMath::Sqrt(kMass * kMass + fMomentum * fMomentum); } void AliGenGrayParticles::Generate() { // // Generate one event // Float_t p[3]; Float_t origin[3] = {0., 0., 0.}; Float_t polar [3] = {0., 0., 0.}; Int_t nt, i; for(i = 0;i < fNpart; i++) { Int_t kf = kProton; GenerateSlow(1, fTemperature, 0., p); SetTrack(fTrackIt, -1, kf, p, origin, polar, 0., kPNoProcess, nt, 1.); KeepTrack(nt); } } void AliGenGrayParticles::GenerateSlow(Int_t charge, Double_t T, Double_t beta, Float_t* q) /* Emit a slow nucleon with "temperature" T [GeV], from a source moving with velocity beta Three-momentum [GeV/c] is given back in q[3] */ { Double_t m, pmax, p, f, theta, phi; TDatabasePDG * pdg = TDatabasePDG::Instance(); const Double_t kMassProton = pdg->GetParticle(kProton) ->Mass(); const Double_t kMassNeutron = pdg->GetParticle(kNeutron)->Mass(); /* Select nucleon type */ if(charge == 0) m = kMassNeutron; else m = kMassProton; /* Momentum at maximum of Maxwell-distribution */ pmax = TMath::Sqrt(2*T*(T+sqrt(T*T+m*m))); /* Try until proper momentum */ /* for lack of primitive function of the Maxwell-distribution */ /* a brute force trial-accept loop, normalized at pmax */ do { p = Rndm() * fPmax; f = Maxwell(m, p, T) / Maxwell(m , pmax, T); } while(f < Rndm()); /* Spherical symmetric emission */ theta = TMath::ACos(2. * Rndm() - 1.); phi = 2. * TMath::Pi() * Rndm(); /* Determine momentum components in system of the moving source */ q[0] = p * TMath::Sin(theta) * TMath::Cos(phi); q[1] = p * TMath::Sin(theta) * TMath::Sin(phi); q[2] = p * TMath::Cos(theta); /* Transform to system of the target nucleus */ /* beta is passed as negative, because the gray nucleons are slowed down */ Lorentz(m, -beta, q); /* Transform to laboratory system */ Lorentz(m, fBeta, q); } Double_t AliGenGrayParticles::Maxwell(Double_t m, Double_t p, Double_t T) { /* Relativistic Maxwell-distribution */ Double_t ekin; ekin = TMath::Sqrt(p*p+m*m)-m; return (p*p * exp(-ekin/T)); } void AliGenGrayParticles::Lorentz(Double_t m, Double_t beta, Float_t* q) { /* Lorentz transform in the direction of q[2] */ Double_t gamma = 1/sqrt(1-beta*beta); Double_t energy = sqrt(m*m + q[0]*q[0] + q[1]*q[1] + q[2]*q[2]); q[2] = gamma * (q[2] + beta*energy); }