Charm production in SIBYLL

Understand

SIBYLL 2.1 is an event generator for hadron interactions at the highest energies.

• It is commonly used to analyze and interpret extensive air shower measurements.
• In light of the first detection of PeV neutrinos by the IceCube collaboration the inclusive fluxes of muons and neutrinos in the atmosphere have become very important.
• Predicting these fluxes requires understanding of the hadronic production of charmed particles since these contribute significantly to the fluxes at high energy through their prompt decay.