Requirements for first interface to CORSIKA: Particle properties

assigned to @mreininghaus

We already have:

• mass
• electric charge
• PDG code
• conversion from/to SIBYLL codes

Lifetimes are a bit weird. Some particles in ParticleData.xml have lifetimes, others have decay widths. Some have both, but they don't match.

Almost finished:

• re-add SiBYLL conversion tables
• add nuclei

As future option: is it possible to select subset of ParticleData.xml based on the "process" list? Seems complicated (at compile time) but maybe possible.

Discuss, how to add nuclei?

Where can we get easily parsable files with the relevant data about all the isotopes we want to incorporate?

How are nuclei represented in the interaction models?

In the models they are represented by A and Z and a flag that they are nuclei.

I am not aware of a file that would contain the data we need on an isotope basis.

mentioned in issue #35 (closed)

created branch 17-requirements-for-first-interface-to-corsika-particle-properties

mentioned in merge request !3 (merged)

closed via merge request !3 (merged)

mentioned in commit bd8c3a91