Modelling hadronic interactions in HEP MC generators
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-12-12 v1
Abstract
HEP event generators aim to describe high-energy collisions in full exclusive detail. They combine perturbative matrix elements and parton showers with dynamical models of less well-understood phenomena such as hadronization, diffraction, and the so-called underlying event. We briefly summarise some of the main concepts relevant to the modelling of soft/inclusive hadron interactions in MC generators, in particular PYTHIA, with emphasis on questions recently highlighted by LHC data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1412.3525,
title = {Modelling hadronic interactions in HEP MC generators},
author = {Peter Skands},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.3525},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
6 pages. Prepared in the context of the 18th International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions, CERN, 2014