Eur. Phys. J. A (2011) 47: 4
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2011-11004-9

Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory

Response function of the magnetic spectrometer PRISMA

¹ Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy
² INFN, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy
³ INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
⁴ Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Torino and INFN Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy
⁵ Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN, Legnaro, Italy
⁶ IFIC, CSIC-University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
⁷ Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
⁸ Ruer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

^* e-mail: silvia.leoni@mi.infn.it

Received: 7 April 2010
Revised: 18 November 2010
Accepted: 6 December 2010
Published online: 6 January 2011

Abstract

The response function of the magnetic spectrometer PRISMA is studied via a Monte Carlo simulation that employs a ray tracing code to determine the trajectories of individual rays through the electromagnetic fields. The calculated response is tested on angular and energy distributions provided by theoretical calculations for the ⁴⁸Ca + ⁶⁴Ni multinucleon transfer reaction and applied to the corresponding experimental data.