The FLUKA Monte Carlo code, presently used in cosmic ray physics, contains packages to sample soft hadronic processes which are built according to the Dual Parton Model. This is a phenomenological model capable of reproducing many of the features of hadronic collisions in the non perturbative QCD regime. The basic principles of the model are summarized and, as an example, the associated Lambda-K production is discussed. This is a process which has some relevance for the calculation of atmospheric neutrino fluxes.
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0412178,
title = {The FLUKA Monte Carlo, non-perturbative QCD and Cosmic Ray cascades},
author = {G. Battistoni and A. Fassò and A. Ferrari and J. Ranft and P. R. Sala},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0412178},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Extended version of the work for the proceedings of the workshop on QCD at Cosmic Ray Energies, Erice, Aug. 30 - Sep. 4 2004, Italy