Speaker
Marius Utheim
Description
In recent times, the Pythia event generator has been extended to feature simulations of generic hadron-nucleon interactions. In this talk, I present a further extension to hadron-ion interactions, which are of particular relevance for air showers where hadronic cascades interact with nuclei in the air.
The model has been validated against NA61/SHINE data. The model also has applications to the vector-meson dominance component of photo-induced processes, and in this context has been found to give a good description of HERA and ATLAS data.
