Sibyll with charm
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2011-03-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The cosmic ray interaction event generator Sibyll is widely used in extensive air shower simulations for cosmic ray and neutrino experiments. Charmed particle production has been added to the Monte Carlo with a phenomenological, non-perturbative model that properly accounts for charm production in the forward direction. As prompt decays of charm can become a significant background for neutrino detection, proper simulation of charmed particles is very important. We compare charmed meson and baryon production to accelerator data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1102.5705,
title = {Sibyll with charm},
author = {Eun-Joo Ahn and Ralph Engel and Thomas K. Gaisser and Paolo Lipari and Todor Stanev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.5705},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
presented at ISVHECRI 2010