Pluto++
A Monte Carlo simulation tool for hadronic physics
Original design and implementation by Marios A. Kagarlis, GSI


The package at a glance

A snapshot of Pluto
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Non-HADES users are kindly asked to cite the package as described below
Version 5.34 of 19/01/2010
Class Index QA-plots Tutorials Contributing authors References
News (since v5.3x): (for details see Release notes)
  • Adding instream particles via batch command (see new demo macro)
  • General purpose file format for acceptance filters (see tutorials)
  • Added more strangeness particles
  • New aliases (e.g. Delta0(1232) for D0)
  • Added fairroot plugin (see README)
  • Many plugins (e.g. pn scattering)
  • New makefile
  • Some changes for quasi-free reactions
  • Changed standard seed to the systime


Version 5.34.1 of 23/01/2010
Class Index QA-plots Tutorials Contributing authors References
News: (for details see Release notes)
  • N-body phase space (N>3) with 1 unstable hadron


Archived versions NB: dev versions or minor releases are not archived.
Publications
Citation rules for users

For version 5 (in general) cite:

Pluto: A Monte Carlo Simulation Tool for Hadronic Physics. [Spires]

Users of the new interface methods could use also:

Design of the Pluto Event Generator. [Spires]

For the bremsstrahlung (and new Delta description):


A versatile method for simulating pp -> ppe+e- and dp -> pne+e-p_spec reactions. [Spires]


For the version 4 cite:

M. A. Kagarlis, GSI Report 2000-03 (2000), unpublished
Full document (Contents)
Other documents
Newsletter Jan. 10
Newsletter Feb. 08
Weight-Based Event Sampling
Thermal sources in Pluto
Parametrization of pp elastic angular distributions
Related Topics
GSI Meeting: Hadronic Physics with HADES
1st HADES Workshop on Simulations

 

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