https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612002002
Hard diffraction in Pythia 8
Theoretical Particle Physics, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Sölvegatan 14A, SE-22362 Lund, Sweden.
a e-mail: christine.rasmussen@thep.lu.se
Published online: 4 July 2016
We present an overview of the options for diffraction implemented in the general-purpose event generator Pythia 8 [1]. We review the existing model for soft diffraction and present a new model for hard diffraction. Both models use the Pomeron approach pioneered by Ingelman and Schlein, factorising the diffractive cross section into a Pomeron flux and a Pomeron PDF, with several choices for both implemented in Pythia 8. The model of hard diffraction is implemented as a part of the multiparton interactions (MPI) framework, thus introducing a dynamical gap survival probability that explicitly breaks factorisation.
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