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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 27: Poster

HK 27.26: Poster

Dienstag, 28. März 2017, 16:45–18:45, F Foyer

Monte Carlo Studies of Collision Energy Dependence of π⁰-Production in pp Collisions — •Leonard Brandenburg — Institut für Kernphysik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

The ALICE experiment at the LHC is designed to investigate the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), which is believed to be produced in Pb-Pb collisions at high center-of-mass energies. Studies on the production of neutral mesons in Pb-Pb collisions use particle production measurements in pp collisions as an important baseline.
Monte Carlo event generators are essential tools used in detector design and experimental analysis. Since not all aspects of these simulations can be derived from first principles, they require tuning of their parameters in order to accurately describe experimental data. Ideally, these tuned event generators should match experimental data over a wide range of center-of-mass energies.
In this poster, the dependence of π⁰ production in pp collisions on center-of-mass energy will be discussed using the 4C, 4Cx and Monash 2013 tunes of the PYTHIA 8 event generator. Furthermore the results will be compared to experimental data at center-of-mass energies from 62.4 GeV to 7 TeV.