We present the design of the simulation package Pluto, aimed at the study of hadronic interactions at SIS and FAIR energies. Its main mission is to offer a modular framework with an object-oriented structure, thereby making additions such as new particles, decays of resonances, new models up to modules for entire changes easily applicable. Overall consistency is ensured by a plugin- and distribution manager. Particular features are the support of a modular structure for physics process descriptions, and the possibility to access the particle stream for on-line modifications. Additional configuration and self-made classes can be attached by the user without re-compiling the package, which makes Pluto extremely configurable.
@article{arxiv.0905.2568,
title = {Design of the Pluto Event Generator},
author = {I. Froehlich and T. Galatyuk and R. Holzmann and J. Markert and B. Ramstein and P. Salabura and J. Stroth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2568},
year = {2010}
}
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Presented at the 17th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics