3151 {
3152 desc << " FTF (Fritiof) Model \n"
3153 << "The FTF model is based on the well-known FRITIOF \n"
3154 << "model (B. Andersson et al., Nucl. Phys. B281, 289 \n"
3155 << "(1987)). Its first program implementation was given\n"
3156 << "by B. Nilsson-Almquist and E. Stenlund (Comp. Phys.\n"
3157 << "Comm. 43, 387 (1987)). The Fritiof model assumes \n"
3158 << "that all hadron-hadron interactions are binary \n"
3159 << "reactions, h_1+h_2->h_1'+h_2' where h_1' and h_2' \n"
3160 << "are excited states of the hadrons with continuous \n"
3161 << "mass spectra. The excited hadrons are considered as\n"
3162 << "QCD-strings, and the corresponding LUND-string \n"
3163 << "fragmentation model is applied for a simulation of \n"
3164 << "their decays. \n"
3165 << " The Fritiof model assumes that in the course of \n"
3166 << "a hadron-nucleus interaction a string originated \n"
3167 << "from the projectile can interact with various intra\n"
3168 << "nuclear nucleons and becomes into highly excited \n"
3169 << "states. The probability of multiple interactions is\n"
3170 << "calculated in the Glauber approximation. A cascading\n"
3171 << "of secondary particles was neglected as a rule. Due\n"
3172 << "to these, the original Fritiof model fails to des- \n"
3173 << "cribe a nuclear destruction and slow particle spectra.\n"
3174 << " In order to overcome the difficulties we enlarge\n"
3175 << "the model by the reggeon theory inspired model of \n"
3176 << "nuclear desctruction (Kh. Abdel-Waged and V.V. Uzhi-\n"
3177 << "nsky, Phys. Atom. Nucl. 60, 828 (1997); Yad. Fiz. 60, 925\n"
3178 << "(1997)). Momenta of the nucleons ejected from a nuc-\n"
3179 << "leus in the reggeon cascading are sampled according\n"
3180 << "to a Fermi motion algorithm presented in (EMU-01 \n"
3181 << "Collaboration (M.I. Adamovich et al.) Zeit. fur Phys.\n"
3182 << "A358, 337 (1997)). \n"
3183 << " New features were also added to the Fritiof model\n"
3184 << "implemented in Geant4: a simulation of elastic had-\n"
3185 << "ron-nucleon scatterings, a simulation of binary \n"
3186 << "reactions like NN>NN* in hadron-nucleon interactions,\n"
3187 << "a separate simulation of single diffractive and non-\n"
3188 << " diffractive events. These allowed to describe after\n"
3189 << "model parameter tuning a wide set of experimental \n"
3190 << "data. \n";
3191}