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MBR Monte Carlo Simulation in PYTHIA8

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-08-07 v2

Abstract

We present the MBR (Minimum Bias Rockefeller) Monte Carlo simulation of (anti)proton-proton interactions and its implementation in the PYTHIA8 event generator. We discuss the total, elastic, and total-inelastic cross sections, and three contributions from diffraction dissociation processes that contribute to the latter: single diffraction, double diffraction, and central diffraction or double-Pomeron exchange. The event generation follows a renormalized-Regge-theory model, successfully tested using CDF data. Based on the MBR-enhanced PYTHIA8 simulation, we present cross-section predictions for the LHC and beyond, up to collision energies of 50 TeV.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1205.1446,
  title  = {MBR Monte Carlo Simulation in PYTHIA8},
  author = {R. Ciesielski and K. Goulianos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.1446},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures; typo corrected on page 3 in units of s_0 and short explanation added

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