Fermilab Theory Seminars

String hadronization in PYTHIA -- from e+e- to pp and beyond.

by Javira Altmann (Monash University)

US/Central
West Wing-WH10NW

West Wing-WH10NW

Description

The Monte Carlo event generator PYTHIA uses what is called the Lund String model for hadronization, which models the QCD confinement field as strings whereby the fragmentation of these QCD strings results in final state hadrons. This model has thus far been shown to work well for describing e+e- collision systems. However there has been much tantalizing evidence from the LHC that hadronization in e+e- and pp collision systems is not universal, for example the strangeness enhancement measurements from ALICE which show a rise in strange hadron-to-pion ratios with event multiplicity. The baseline Lund String model does not predict many of these results, however there have been several additional models implemented that modify the baseline Lund String model and have shown some success in describing such LHC data. In this talk I will outline a few of these models and their descriptions of such data, as well as the future prospects and further work remaining.