RT Journal Article
T1 Reliability of Monte Carlo event generators for gamma-ray dark matter searches
A1 López Maroto, Antonio
A1 Cruz Dombriz, Álvaro de la
A1 Ruiz Cembranos, José Alberto
A1 Gammaldi, Viviana
A1 Lineros, Roberto A.
AB We study the differences in the gamma-ray spectra simulated by four Monte Carlo event generator packages developed in particle physics. Two different versions of PYTHIA and two of HERWIG are analyzed, namely PYTHIA 6.418 and HERWIG 6.5.10 in Fortran and PYTHIA 8.165 and HERWIG 2.6.1 in C++. For all the studied channels, the intrinsic differences between them are shown to be significative and may play an  mportant role in misunderstanding dark matter signals.
PB Springer
SN 1029-8479
YR 2013
FD 2013-09-13
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33589
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33589
LA eng
NO This work was supported by UCM FPI grants G/640/400/8000 (2011 Program), the Spanish MINECO projects numbers FIS2011 23000, FPA2011-27853-C02-01, FPA2011-22975 and MULTIDARK CSD2009-00064 (Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme). AdlCD also acknowledges _nancial support from Marie Curie - Beatriu de Pinos contract BP-B00195, Generalitat de Catalunya and ACGC, University of Cape Town. RL also acknowledges Prometeo/2009/091 (Generalitat Valenciana) and EU ITN UNILHC PITN-GA-2009-237920 _nancial support.
NO UCM FPI
NO MINECO, España
NO Generalitat de Catalunya
NO Marie Curie - Beatriu de Pinos
NO ACGC, University of Cape Town
NO Generalitat Valenciana
NO EU ITN UNILHC
NO Consolider-Ingenio MULTIDARK
DS Docta Complutense
RD 12 abr 2025