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
Scripting with Pluto (see also full reference manual)
Examples for Pluto as a quick converter
Discussion
Pluto forum (read-only for guests)
Download Locations
Non-HADES users are kindly asked to cite the package as described below
Version 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.
Publications
Citation rules for users

For 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M. A. Kagarlis, GSI Report 2000-03 (2000), unpublished
Full document (Contents)
Other documents
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 Topics
Unigen: a converter for different event generator formats

 

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