Speaker
Max Fieg
Description
The event generator, Pythia, has been invaluable in making predictions at colliders like the LHC. However, Pythia was tuned with central ($\eta$<5) measurements, and so it should not be expected to reproduce forward physics data, such as what the LHCf collaboration has obtained ($\eta$>10). If new physics is to be probed at the proposed FPF, one must sufficiently understand the incoming shower of standard model particles. Here, I will discuss an ongoing effort to tune Pythia for the FPF.
