THERMINATOR is a Monte Carlo event generator designed to study the statistical production of particles in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. A separate code, FEMTO-THERMINATOR, is provided to carry out the analysis of femtoscopic correlations which are an important source of information concerning the size and expansion of the system.
Tasks
Students will work with the Therminator 2 model. The main tasks are:
a. Install the Therminator 2 environment;
b. Generate events for pPb collisions;
c. Analyze the generated data;
d. Obtain the correlation function for the particles specified before.
Preliminary schedule by topics/tasks
The project duration is 4 weeks. The work schedule is to be determined.
Required skills
a. Computer with Linux or OS operating system
b. Programming skills in C++ and ROOT languages
c. Basic English skills
Acquired skills and experience
- Root environment
- C++
- bash scripts
- femtoscopy method and its analysis
Recommended literature
a) Introduction to relativistic heavy ion physics, J. Bartke, World Scientific, 2009
b) 2. K+K− femtoscopic correlations in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV in the ALICE experiment at LHC, B.V. Batyunya, L.V. Malinina, K.R. Mikhaylov, E.P. Rogochaya, 2017
c) 3. Femtoscopic Correlations and Final State Resonance Formation, R. Lednicky, 2011
d) https://therminator2.ifj.edu.pl Therminator generator main page
