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- photon15@inp.nsk.su
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Monte Carlo event generation of photon-photon collisions at colliders
Speakers
- Dr. Ilkka HELENIUS
Primary authors
- Dr. Ilkka HELENIUS (Lund University)
Co-authors
- Prof. Torbjörn SJÖSTRAND (Lund University)
Content
In addition being interesting itself the photon-photon interactions will be an inevitable background for the future electron-positron colliders. Thus it is important to be able to simulate these collisions in a very good accuracy. In my talk I will present our ongoing work to implement the photon-photon collisions in PYTHIA8 event generator. First I will briefly describe how the partonic structure of the photon and differs from the structure of a proton. Then I will discuss about modifications of parton shower generation and beam remnant handling required to accommodate the photon beams into PYTHIA8. Finally I will present some preliminary results on particle production in photon-photon collisions and give an outlook about further developments.
