https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159912001
Charm production in SIBYLL
1 Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Kernphysik, Postfach 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
2 CERN EN-STI-EET, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
3 Bartol Research Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
a e-mail: felix.riehn@kit.edu
Published online: 4 August 2015
SIBYLL 2.1 is an event generator for hadron interactions at the highest energies. It is commonly used to analyze and interpret extensive air shower measurements. In light of the first detection of PeV neutrinos by the IceCube collaboration the inclusive fluxes of muons and neutrinos in the atmosphere have become very important. Predicting these fluxes requires understanding of the hadronic production of charmed particles since these contribute significantly to the fluxes at high energy through their prompt decay. We will present an updated version of SIBYLL that has been tuned to describe LHC data and extended to include the production of charmed hadrons.
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