Hadronic Working Group

Work Plan for 2008

1. Calorimeter Response and Shower Shape
   • Continue study and monitoring of shower shapes vs. evolving physics lists
     • Alberto Ribon
   • Improve shower shape by improving FTF model
     • Vladimir Uzhinsky
   • Investigate energy response and energy resolution in various calorimeter test beam set ups
     • CMS HCAL, latest ATLAS results
     • examine physics lists to isolate origin of differences from data
     • study effect of low energy nucleons on energy deposit
     • Alberto Ribon, Gunter Folger, Dennis Wright
2. Validation:
   • Test30/35 maintenance and extension (20 MeV - 3 GeV + HARP)
     • Vladimir Ivantchenko
   • Complete simulation of Catania experimental apparatus
     • validate simulation against fragmentation
     • contribute fragmentation data to Test30
     • Pablo Cirrone
   • Continue medium energy validation (3 - 30 GeV) and expansion of validation web page
     • Daniel Elvira, Sunanda Banerjee, Julia Yarba
   • Develop Test43 for high energy thin target validations
     • Gunter Folger
   • Complete benchmarks for Hadronic Shower Simulation Workshop II
     • Gunter Folger, Alberto Ribon, Dennis Wright
   • Develop HELIOS target diffraction benchmark
     • Alberto Ribon
   • Complete comparisons for SATIF-9 Shielding Workshop (February 2008)
     • Tatsumi Koi
   • HP neutron validation against data in ENDF7 paper
     • Tatsumi Koi
3. CHIPS Maintenance and Development:
   • Appoint responsible
   • Testing of Quasi-elastic code (unit test is available)
4. Model Development:
   • DPMJET interface (May 2008)
     • Pete Truscott
   • RPG model
     • E, Q, S, B conserving model for nucleons and pions June 2008
     • Fully tuned model by December 2008
     • Dennis Wright, Sunanda Banerjee, Julia Yarba, Daniel Elvira, Vladimir Ivantchenko
   • QMD model
     • Up to 2-3 GeV/n interactions are ready. Validated by June 2008
     • Add meson interactions by December 2008
     • Tatsumi Koi
   • G4ENDL neutron models (LLNL database)
     • elastic process by June 2008
     • capture, fission and inelastic by December 2008
     • Tatsumi Koi
   • Diffuse Elastic Scattering
     • testing and tuning finished by June 2008
     • study extension to high energy hadrons, low energy ions
     • Vladimir Grichine
   • INCL/ABLA
     • complete bug fixes and validation by June 2008
     • Pekka Kaitaniemi, Aatos Heikkinen
   • Improved modeling of coherent hadron elastic scattering
     • Nikolai Starkov
   • Binary cascade
     • investigate pion absorption on quasi-deuteron
     • coupling to exciton models
     • explore use with high energy models as propagator
     • look at implementing incident kaons
     • investigate elastic scattering methods from G4LEnp, G4LEpp used in Binary cascade
     • Gunter Folger
   • Bertini cascade
     • add Coulomb barrier
     • find out why too much quasi-elastic scattering
     • fix angular distribution parameterizations
     • class re-design
     • cross section updates
     • Aatos Heikkinen, Dennis Wright
   • Precompound/de-excitation
     • continue bug fixes and model improvements
     • test improvements and validate against TARC data
     • Jose Manuel Quesada Molina, Miguel Cortes, Alex Howard
5. Cross Sections:
   • Standardize elastic cross section classe
     • Vladimir Ivantchenko
   • Charge exchange
     • correct further bugs in LEP code
     • survey available cross section data
     • Fred Jones
   • G4NDL
     • add JENDL high energy cross sections by June 2008b
     • add ENDL (LLNL) data by December 2008
     • Tatsumi Koi
   • Testing of low energy and anti-proton cross sections
     • improve behavior of low energy cross sections (below 10 MeV)
     • Vladimir Grichine
6. Examples
   • Hadr00 extended example to demonstrate and test use of hadronic models. No detector, cross sections only
     • Vladimir Ivantchenko

Modified: 12 February 2008,