3069 {
3070 desc << " FTF (Fritiof) Model \n"
3071 << "The FTF model is based on the well-known FRITIOF \n"
3072 << "model (B. Andersson et al., Nucl. Phys. B281, 289 \n"
3073 << "(1987)). Its first program implementation was given\n"
3074 << "by B. Nilsson-Almquist and E. Stenlund (Comp. Phys.\n"
3075 << "Comm. 43, 387 (1987)). The Fritiof model assumes \n"
3076 << "that all hadron-hadron interactions are binary \n"
3077 << "reactions, h_1+h_2->h_1'+h_2' where h_1' and h_2' \n"
3078 << "are excited states of the hadrons with continuous \n"
3079 << "mass spectra. The excited hadrons are considered as\n"
3080 << "QCD-strings, and the corresponding LUND-string \n"
3081 << "fragmentation model is applied for a simulation of \n"
3082 << "their decays. \n"
3083 << " The Fritiof model assumes that in the course of \n"
3084 << "a hadron-nucleus interaction a string originated \n"
3085 << "from the projectile can interact with various intra\n"
3086 << "nuclear nucleons and becomes into highly excited \n"
3087 << "states. The probability of multiple interactions is\n"
3088 << "calculated in the Glauber approximation. A cascading\n"
3089 << "of secondary particles was neglected as a rule. Due\n"
3090 << "to these, the original Fritiof model fails to des- \n"
3091 << "cribe a nuclear destruction and slow particle spectra.\n"
3092 << " In order to overcome the difficulties we enlarge\n"
3093 << "the model by the reggeon theory inspired model of \n"
3094 << "nuclear desctruction (Kh. Abdel-Waged and V.V. Uzhi-\n"
3095 << "nsky, Phys. Atom. Nucl. 60, 828 (1997); Yad. Fiz. 60, 925\n"
3096 << "(1997)). Momenta of the nucleons ejected from a nuc-\n"
3097 << "leus in the reggeon cascading are sampled according\n"
3098 << "to a Fermi motion algorithm presented in (EMU-01 \n"
3099 << "Collaboration (M.I. Adamovich et al.) Zeit. fur Phys.\n"
3100 << "A358, 337 (1997)). \n"
3101 << " New features were also added to the Fritiof model\n"
3102 << "implemented in Geant4: a simulation of elastic had-\n"
3103 << "ron-nucleon scatterings, a simulation of binary \n"
3104 << "reactions like NN>NN* in hadron-nucleon interactions,\n"
3105 << "a separate simulation of single diffractive and non-\n"
3106 << " diffractive events. These allowed to describe after\n"
3107 << "model parameter tuning a wide set of experimental \n"
3108 << "data. \n";
3109}