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COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 174, Issue 8, Pages 669-687Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2005.11.010
Keywords
Monte Carlo generator; relativistic heavy-ion collisions; thermal models; particle production; transverse-momentum spectra
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THERMINATOR is a Monte Carlo event generator designed for studying of particle production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions performed at such experimental facilities as the SPS, RHIC, or LHC. The program implements thermal models of particle production with single freeze-out. It performs the following tasks: (I) generation of stable particles and unstable resonances at the chosen freeze-out hypersurface with the local phase-space density of particles given by the statistical distribution factors, (2) subsequent space-time evolution and decays of hadronic resonances in cascades, (3) calculation of the transverse-momentum spectra and numerous other observables related to the space-time evolution. The geometry of the freeze-out hypersurface and the collective velocity of expansion may be chosen from two successful models, the Cracow single-freeze-out model and the Blast-Wave model. All particles from the Particle Data Tables are used. The code is written in the object-oriented c++ language and complies to the standards of the ROOT environment.
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