Design of the Pluto Event Generator

Abstract

We present the design of the simulation package Pluto, aimed at the study of hadronic interactions at SIS and FAIR energies. Its main mission is to offer a modular framework with an object-oriented structure, thereby making additions such as new particles, decays of resonances, new models up to modules for entire changes easily applicable. Overall consistency is ensured by a plugin- and distribution manager. Particular features are the support of a modular structure for physics process descriptions, and the possibility to access the particle stream for on-line modifications. Additional configuration and self-made classes can be attached by the user without re-compiling the package, which makes Pluto extremely configurable.

Presented at the 17th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics

References in corpus (3)

• PYTHIA 6.4 Physics and Manual
• The High-Acceptance Dielectron Spectrometer HADES
• Pluto: A Monte Carlo Simulation Tool for Hadronic Physics

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