A new model for soft interactions in Herwig

Abstract

We present a new model for soft interactions in the Monte Carlo event-generator Herwig. The soft diffractive final states are modeled on the basis of the cluster hadronization model and interactions between soft particles are modeled as multiple particle production with multiperipheral kinematics. We further present much improved results of mininum-bias measurements at different energies.

Comments: Proceedings of the XXII Cracow EPIPHANY Conference 2017, Particle Theory Meets the First Data from LHC run 2