Speaker
Marius Utheim
Description
In order to accurately simulate hadronic cascades through a medium, it is necessary to model hadron-ion collisions with generic hadron species. Pythia has recently added support for hadron-nucleon collisions, along with a simplified toy model for generalizing this to the hadron-ion case. In this talk, I present these developments, including ongoing work to interface it with CORSIKA8, and discuss how the Angantyr framework (Pythia’s module for heavy ion collisions) can be extended to give a more accurate description of hadron-ion collisions. I also present some new features of the Angantyr framework that may be relevant to cosmic rays, such as rope formation, which has been shown to give rise to strangeness enhancement.
| Preferred track | Cosmic Rays and Astrophysics |
|---|---|
| Subfield | Heavy-ion theory |
| Attending in-person? | Yes |
