Sibyll with Charm

30 Jun 2010, 09:30
15m
One West (Fermilab)

One West

Fermilab

PO Box 500 Batavia, IL 60510
Contributed Monte Carlo models Sensitivity of Monte Carlo models to data

Speaker

Dr Eun-Joo Ahn (Fermilab)

Description

The cosmic ray interaction event generator Sibyll is widely used in extensive air shower simulations for cosmic ray and neutrino experiments. Charm 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 charm particles is very important. We compare charm meson and baryon production to accelerator data.
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Primary author

Dr Eun-Joo Ahn (Fermilab)

Co-authors

Paolo Lipari (University of Rome) Ralph Engel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Thomas Gaisser (University of Delaware) Todor Stanev (University of Delaware)

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