Hadronic Working Group2008 Work Plans by Collaborator

Hadronic Working Group Meeting 24 January 2008

Sunanda Banerjee• Medium energy validation

– continue model-level comparisons

– continue maintenance of validation web page

• RPG model

– learn basics of RPG model and contribute to development– begin model tuning using data < 30 GeV

Pablo Cirrone• Complete exact simulation of Catania experimental apparatus

– validate simulation against fragmentation data

• Add fragmentation data to test35

Daniel Elvira• Medium energy validation

– continue model-level comparisons

– continue maintenance of validation web page

• RPG model

– learn basics of RPG model and contribute to development– begin model tuning using data < 30 GeV

Gunter Folger• Validation

– hadronic shower simulation: finish benchmarks on pion production using NA49 data at 158 GeV/c

– complete additional thin target validations (and port to root)

– prepare test43 with above validations

• Binary cascade– investigate pion absorption on nucleon pair

– investigate elastic scattering with nucleons (G4LEnp, G4LEpp)

– coupling to de-excitation models

– using high energy models via propagate interface● test case comparing to data● create system integration test

– investigate feasibility of kaon incident

• High energy (QGS ?)

Vladimir Grichine• Support and testing of hadronic cross sections

– testing low energy cross sections

– testing anti-proton cross sections ( < 1 GeV)

• Testing and tuning of diffuse elastic differential cross section model

– analysis of model extension to high energy hadrons and low energy ions

Aatos Heikkinen• INCL/ABLA

– participate in re-design of current model

– assist Pekka Kaitaniemi in code improvement

• Bertini cascade– class re-design

– Coulomb barrier

– model tuning

– extension to kaon production from non-strange collisions

– cross section updates

Alex Howard

• The development, integration and testing (physics and CPU) of Jose Manuel’s improvements to the probabilities within the G4PreCompound and G4Evaporation/de-excitation modules

• Complete the TARC neutron validation study

• Maintenance of the G4PreCompound and G4Evaporation/de-excitation modules

• NB: During 2008 my “Geant4 time” is limited to 10%

Vladimir Ivantchenko

• Maintain and extend test30, test35– continue validations at low and intermediate energies

• Contribute to RPG model devlopment

• Standardize elastic cross section classes

Fred Jones• Charge exchange

– survey available cross section data

– correct bugs in LEP charge exchange, using original GHEISHA code as a guide

– mining of cross section data from SAID database

Tatsumi Koi

• Ion-Ion Interaction (G4QMD)– Validation of current G4QMD End of Jun.– Enhance primary particles (mesons) End of Dec.– Enhance energy limits work will continue to 2009

• ENDL Neutron (G4ENDL)– Elastic End of Jun.– Capture, Inelastic and Fission End of Dec.– Validation with ENDF7 paper End of Dec.– Binary Reaction Mode First implementation will be done at End of Jun.

• HP Neutron (G4NeutronHP)– Validation with ENDF7 paper End of Dec.– Binary Reaction Mode First implementation will be done at End of Jun.

• G4NDL– JENDL HE Cross SectionsEnd of Jun.– ENDL data End of Dec.

• SATIF9 Inter comparison End of Feb.

Jose Manuel Quesada Molina• Improve G4Precompound model

– add theoretical improvements

– fix existing code

– validate against data

Alberto Ribon• Continue study of hadronic shower shapes

• Investigate differences in energy response and energy resolution in different calorimeter test beam set-ups

• Continue to monitor impact of new code development on observables in hadronic calorimeters

• Help complete the list of tasks for comparing different simulation codes (HSS)

• Simple benchmark: target diffraction in HELIOS

Nikolai Starkov• Improve modelling of coherent hadron elastic scattering

Pete Truscott• Complete DPMJET interface for high energy nucleus-nucleus

collisions– May 2008

Dennis Wright• RPG model

– nucleon and pion model re-factoring and correct energy, charge and strangeness conservation done May 2008

– model tuning and parameter optimization done by Dec 2008

• Hadronic calorimeter studies– low energy response of CMS HCAL

• Hadronic shower simulation workshop– re-do existing benchmarks by May 2008

• Bertini cascade– continue angular distribution studies

– help with Coulomb barrier

Julia Yarba• Medium energy validation

– continue model-level comparisons

– continue maintenance of validation web page

• RPG model

– learn basics of RPG model and contribute to development– begin model tuning using data < 30 GeV