Baryon Anticorrelations in PYTHIA

We present a computational investigation of a problem of hadron collisions from recent years, that of baryon anticorrelations. This is an experimental dearth of baryons near other baryons in phase space, not seen upon examining numerical Monte Carlo simulations. We have addressed one of the best kno...

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Autores: González, Sebastián, Demazure, Noe, Llanes Estrada, Felipe José
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositório:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/88863
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/88863
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:539.1
Kaons
Hadron
Mesons
Pythia (Software)
Física matemática
2212 Física Teórica
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Resumo:We present a computational investigation of a problem of hadron collisions from recent years, that of baryon anticorrelations. This is an experimental dearth of baryons near other baryons in phase space, not seen upon examining numerical Monte Carlo simulations. We have addressed one of the best known Monte Carlo codes, PYTHIA, to see what baryon (anti)correlations it produces, where they are originated at the string-fragmentation level in the underlying Lund model, and what simple modifications could lead to better agreement with data. We propose two ad-hoc alterations of the fragmentation code, a "one-baryon" and an "always-baryon" policies that qualitatively reproduce the data behaviour, i.e anticorrelation, and suggest that lacking Pauli-principle induced corrections at the quark level could be the culprit behind the current disagreement between computations and experiment.