Modeling fragmentation of 20Ne nuclei at the LHC
Abstract
Fragmentation of relativistic neon nuclei was studied with the Abrasion-Ablation Monte Carlo for Colliders model (AAMCC-MST), which incorporates pre-equilibrium clustering of spectator matter via a Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) algorithm, subsequent decays of the excited clusters, and Coulomb repulsion between final fragments. After validating the model against data on 20Ne and 22Ne fragmentation on various targets, the production of spectator nuclear fragments, neutrons, and protons in 20Ne-20Ne collisions at the LHC was modeled at √(sNN)=5.36 TeV. The production cross sections, transverse and longitudinal momentum distributions for 2H, 4He, 6Li, 10B, 12C, 14N, and 16O fragments were calculated as these fragments may contaminate 20Ne beams circulating in the LHC. A simple parametrization describing relative width of the longitudinal momentum distributions calculated for these fragment species was constructed. To study the sensitivity of results to α-clustering and nuclear density distributions in neon nuclei, two density profiles for 20Ne and 22Ne were used: a deformed Woods-Saxon, and a five-α bi-pyramidal configuration. In addition, a spherical profile was considered for 20Ne. Comparing results obtained with these profiles and with or without MST clustering shows that the calculated yields of spectator nucleons and fragments, their momentum distributions are sensitive to the details of nuclear structure of 20,22Ne and fragmentation modeling. The results provide the input for simulations of the transport of secondary forward nuclei in the LHC to estimate their interaction rates with circulating 20Ne beam nuclei, and also for calculations of responses of neutron and proton Zero Degree Calorimeters to 20Ne-20Ne events.
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BibTeX
@misc{svetlichnyi2026modeling,
title = {{Modeling fragmentation of $^20$Ne nuclei at the LHC}},
author = {Aleksandr Svetlichnyi and Savva Savenkov and Igor Pshenichnov},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.04430},
eprint = {2611.04430},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.04430},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Modeling fragmentation of ^20Ne nuclei at the LHC
AU - Aleksandr Svetlichnyi
AU - Savva Savenkov
AU - Igor Pshenichnov
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/03
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.04430
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.04430
AB - Fragmentation of relativistic neon nuclei was studied with the Abrasion-Ablation Monte Carlo for Colliders model (AAMCC-MST), which incorporates pre-equilibrium clustering of spectator matter via a Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) algorithm, subsequent decays of the excited clusters, and Coulomb repulsion between final fragments. After validating the model against data on ^20Ne and ^22Ne fragmentation on various targets, the production of spectator nuclear fragments, neutrons, and protons in ^20Ne-^20Ne collisions at the LHC was modeled at √(s_NN)=5.36 TeV. The production cross sections, transverse and longitudinal momentum distributions for ^2H, ^4He, ^6Li, ^10B, ^12C, ^14N, and ^16O fragments were calculated as these fragments may contaminate ^20Ne beams circulating in the LHC. A simple parametrization describing relative width of the longitudinal momentum distributions calculated for these fragment species was constructed. To study the sensitivity of results to α-clustering and nuclear density distributions in neon nuclei, two density profiles for ^20Ne and ^22Ne were used: a deformed Woods-Saxon, and a five-α bi-pyramidal configuration. In addition, a spherical profile was considered for ^20Ne. Comparing results obtained with these profiles and with or without MST clustering shows that the calculated yields of spectator nucleons and fragments, their momentum distributions are sensitive to the details of nuclear structure of ^20,22Ne and fragmentation modeling. The results provide the input for simulations of the transport of secondary forward nuclei in the LHC to estimate their interaction rates with circulating ^20Ne beam nuclei, and also for calculations of responses of neutron and proton Zero Degree Calorimeters to ^20Ne-^20Ne events.
ER -