A detailed study of hadronic interactions is presented using data recorded with the highly granular CALICE silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter.
Approximately 350,000 selected negatively charged pion events at energies between 2 and 10 GeV have been studied.
The predictions of several physics models available within the Geant4 simulation tool kit are compared to this data.
A reasonable overall description of the data is observed; the Monte Carlo predictions are within 20% of the data, and for many observables much closer.
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