251 research outputs found
Extended Air Shower Simulations Based on EPOS
We discuss air shower simulations based on the EPOS hadronic interaction
model.
A remarkable feature is the fact that the number of produced muons is
considerably larger compared to other interaction models. We show that this is
due to an improved treatment of baryon-antibaryon production.Comment: Talk presented at EDS0
Global properties of proton-proton collisions at = 100 TeV
The global properties of the final states produced in hadronic interactions
of protons at centre-of-mass energies of future hadron colliders (such as
FCC-hh at CERN, and SppC in China), are studied. The predictions of various
Monte Carlo (MC) event generators used in collider physics (PYTHIA 6, PYTHIA 8,
and PHOJET) and in ultrahigh-energy cosmic-rays studies (EPOS, and QGSJET) are
compared. Despite their different underlying modeling of hadronic interactions,
their predictions for proton-proton (p-p) collisions at = 100 TeV
are quite similar. The average of all MC predictions (except PHOJET) for the
different observables are: (i) p-p inelastic cross sections
= 105 2 mb; (ii) total charged multiplicity = 150
20; (iii) charged particle pseudorapidity density at midrapidity ; (iv) energy density at midrapidity GeV, and GeV at the edge of the central region; and (v) average transverse momenta
at midrapidities GeV/c. At midrapidity, EPOS and
QGSJET-II predict larger per-event multiplicity probabilities at very low () particle multiplicities,
whereas PYTHIA 6 and 8 feature higher yields in the intermediate region 30--80. These results provide useful information for the
estimation of the detector occupancies and energy deposits from pileup
collisions at the expected large FCC-hh/SppC luminosities.Comment: 10 pages, 11 figures. Minor changes. Matches version published in
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Impact of QCD jets and heavy-quark production in cosmic-ray proton atmospheric showers up to 10 eV
The PYTHIA 6 Monte Carlo (MC) event generator, commonly used in collider
physics, is interfaced for the first time with a fast transport simulation of a
hydrogen atmosphere, with the same density as air, in order to study the
properties of extended atmospheric showers (EAS) produced by cosmic ray protons
with energies E-- eV. At variance with the
hadronic MC generators (EPOS-LHC, QGSJET, and SIBYLL) commonly used in
cosmic-rays physics, PYTHIA includes the generation of harder hadronic jets and
heavy (charm and bottom) quarks, thereby producing higher transverse momentum
final particles, that could explain several anomalies observed in the data. The
electromagnetic, hadronic, and muonic properties of EAS generated with various
settings of PYTHIA 6, tuned to proton-proton data measured at the LHC, are
compared to those from EPOS-LHC, QGSJET 01, QGSJET II, and SIBYLL 2.1. Despite
their different underlying parton dynamics, the characteristics of the EAS
generated with PYTHIA 6 are in between those predicted by the rest of MC
generators. The only exceptions are the muonic components at large transverse
distances from the shower axis, where PYTHIA predicts more activity than the
rest of the models. Heavy-quark production, as implemented in this study for a
hydrogen atmosphere, does not seem to play a key role in the EAS muon
properties, pointing to nuclear effects as responsible of the muon anomalies
observed in the air-shower data.Comment: 13 pages, 20 figure
Particle Production in Proton-Proton and Deuteron-Gold Collisions at RHIC
We try to understand recent data on proton-proton and deuteron-gold
collisions at RHIC, employing a parton model approach called EPOS.Comment: Invited talk, given at SQM2004, Cape Town, South Africa, 15-20
September, 200
Collective flow in (anti)proton-proton collision at Tevatron and LHC
Collective flow as a consequence of hydrodynamical evolution in heavy ion
collisions is intensively studied by theorists and experimentalists to
understand the behavior of hot quark matter. Due to their large mass, heavy
ions suffer collective effects even at low (SPS) or intermediate energies
(RHIC). In case of light systems such as (anti)proton-proton interactions,
collective effects was not expected. Within a global model such as EPOS, where
light and heavy systems are treated using the same physics, it appears that
Tevatron data are better described if a flow is introduced. Then the
extrapolation to LHC can easily be done and we can compare to first data from
ATLAS experiment.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, Proceeding of the 45th Rencontres de Moriond QC
Parton Ladder Splitting and the Rapidity Dependence of Transverse Momentum Spectra in Deuteron-Gold Collisions at RHIC
We present a phenomenological approach (EPOS), based on the parton model, but
going much beyond, and try to understand proton-proton and deuteron-gold
collisions, in particular the transverse momentum results from all the four
RHIC experiments. It turns out that elastic and inelastic parton ladder
splitting is the key issue. Elastic splitting is in fact related to screening
and saturation, but much more important is the inelastic contribution, being
crucial to understand the data. We investigate in detail the rapidity
dependence of nuclear effects, which is actually relatively weak in the model,
in perfect agreement with the data, if the latter ones are interpreted
correctly.Comment: 39 pages, 28 figure
Hadronic Interactions and Air Showers: Where Do We Stand?
The interpretation of EAS measurements strongly depends on detailed air shower simulations. CORSIKA is one of the most commonly used air shower Monte Carlo programs. The main source of uncertainty in the prediction of shower observables for different primary particles and energies is currently dominated by differences between hadronic interaction models even after recent updates taking into account the first LHC data. As a matter of fact the model predictions converged but at the same time more precise air shower and LHC measurements introduced new constraints. Last year a new generation of hadronic interaction models was released in CORSIKA. Sibyll 2.3c and DPMJETIII.17-1 are now available with improved descriptions of particle production and in particular the production of charmed particles. The impact of these hadronic interaction models on air shower predictions are presented here and compared to the first generation of post-LHC models, EPOS LHC and QGSJETII-04. The performance of the new models on standard air shower observables is derived. Due to the various approaches in the physics treatment, there are still large differences in the model predictions but this can already be partially resolved by comparison with the latest LHC data
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