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LHCb - Minimum Bias physics plans and MC framework - EPFL

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Strangeness production<br />

No valence strange quarks in the initial state, strangeness probes<br />

fragmentation field in a unique way.<br />

Non-diff, prompt Λ <strong>and</strong> ¯Λ.<br />

¯Λ/Λ<br />

1.05<br />

1<br />

0.95<br />

0.9<br />

0.85<br />

<strong>LHCb</strong> <strong>MC</strong> generator level 5 TeV/beam<br />

<strong>LHCb</strong><br />

<strong>LHCb</strong>+S0APro<br />

<strong>LHCb</strong>+P0<br />

<strong>LHCb</strong>+PX<br />

<strong>LHCb</strong>+P3<br />

<strong>LHCb</strong>+P6<br />

<strong>LHCb</strong>+PNOCR<br />

<strong>LHCb</strong>+PSoft<br />

<strong>LHCb</strong>+PHard<br />

0.8<br />

−10 −8 −6 −4 −2 0 2 4 6 8 10<br />

η<br />

The distributions were<br />

obtained by varying consistently<br />

PYTHIA parameters<br />

related to: parton distribution<br />

functions, initial state radiation,<br />

final state radiation,<br />

beam remnant, hadronization,<br />

underlying event,<br />

color reconnection see<br />

P. Sk<strong>and</strong>s on Perugia tunes<br />

on top of <strong>LHCb</strong> specific <strong>MC</strong><br />

tunings.<br />

<strong>MC</strong>Net CERN R. Mures¸an, <strong>LHCb</strong> report – p.9/30

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