Cosmic ray event generator Sibyll 2.1
By E. Ahn, Ralph Engel, Thomas K. Gaisser, P. Lipari, Todor Stanev. 2009
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The cosmic ray interaction event generator Sibyll is widely used in extensive air shower simulations. We describe in detail the properties of Sibyll 2.1 and the differences with the original version 1.7. The major structural improvements are the possibility to have multiple soft interactions, introduction of new parton density functions, and an improved treatment of diffraction. Sibyll 2.1 gives better agreement with fixed target and collider data, especially for the inelastic cross sections and multiplicities of secondary particles. Shortcomings and suggestions for future improvements are also discussed.
Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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In Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- A. Fedynitch
- Ralph Engel
- Todor Stanev
- F. Riehn
- Jordan Smolinsky
- Jonathan L. Feng
- I. Galon
- Thomas K. Gaisser
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