PROGRAM SUMMARY
Title of program:
SOPHIA 2.0
Catalogue identifier:
ADLB
Ref. in CPC:
124(2000)290
Distribution format: tar gzip file
Operating system: UNIX, Linux, Open-VMS
High speed store required:
1MK words
Number of bits in a word:
64
Number of lines in distributed program, including test data, etc:
17290
Keywords:
Astrophysics, Nuclear processes, Photon-hadron, Interactions,
Resonance production, Resonance decay, Photoproduction cross
section, Monte Carlo event, Generator, Multiparticle production.
Programming language used: Fortran
Computer:
DEC-Alpha workstation ,
Intel-Pentium .
Nature of physical problem:
Simulation of minimum bias photoproduction for astrophysical
applications.
Method of solution
Monte Carlo simulation of individual events for given nucleon and photon
energies, photon energies are sampled from various distributions.
Restrictions on the complexity of the problem
Incident ambient photon fields limited to power law and blackbody
spectra so far. No tests were done for center-of-mass energies
sqrt(s) >= 1000 GeV.
Typical running time
10000 events at a center-of-mass energy of 1.5 GeV require a typical CPU
time of about 75 seconds.
Unusual features of the program
Other programs used in SOPHIA in modified form: RNDM, processor
independent random number generator based on Ref [1]; JETSET 7.4, Lund
Monte Carlo for jet fragmentation [2]; DECSIB, SIBYLL routine which
decays unstable particles [3].
References
[1] G. Marsaglia, A. Zaman, Toward a universal random number generator,
Florida State Univ., Preprint FSU-SCRI-87-70, 1987.
[2] T. Sjostrand, Comp. Phys. Commun. 82 (1994) 74.
[3] R.S. Fletcher, T.K. Gaisser, P. Lipari, T. Stanev, Phys. Rev. D 50
(1994) 5710.