Pluto++ A Monte Carlo simulation tool for hadronic physics Original design and implementation by Marios A. Kagarlis, GSI
The package at a glance
DiscussionA snapshot of Pluto
Scripting with Pluto (see also full reference manual)
Examples for Pluto as a quick converter
Download LocationsPluto forum (read-only for guests)
Non-HADES users are kindly asked to cite the package as described belowPublicationsVersion 5.40 of 03/11/2011
Class Index QA-plots Tutorials Contributing authors References
News (since v5.38): (for details see Release notes)
- Added PAnyDistribution which works as a general purpose rejection distribution using batch script equations.
- Fixed bug: _w was not written back to the stream particles.
- Added build-in ->GetBeam() and ->GetTarget() methods in PBatch
Version 5.40.3 of 09/05/2012
Class Index QA-plots Tutorials Contributing authors References
News (since v5.40): (for details see Release notes)
- Added new resonances in pdg-plugin
- Added SetRapidityDistribution(TF1 *) to PFireball
- Added Set/GetEnhanceChannelBR which allows to scale the "branching ratio" for bulk decays.
Archived versions NB: dev versions or minor releases are not archived.
Citation rules for usersFor version 5 (in general) cite:
Pluto: A Monte Carlo Simulation Tool for Hadronic Physics. [Inspire]
Users of the new interface methods could use also:
Design of the Pluto Event Generator. [Inspire]
For the bremsstrahlung (and new Delta description):
A versatile method for simulating pp -> ppe+e- and dp -> pne+e-p_spec reactions. [Inspire]
For the version 4 cite:
M. A. Kagarlis, GSI Report 2000-03 (2000), unpublished
Other documentsFull document (Contents)
Talk: new features in v5.37
Newsletter Jan. 10
Newsletter Feb. 08
Weight-Based Event Sampling
Thermal sources in Pluto
Parametrization of pp elastic angular distributions
Related TopicsUnigen: a converter for different event generator formats
IF/Frankfurt/v5.40.3 09/05/2012