Eur. Phys. J. C (2012) 72: 2176
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2176-x

Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory

A Monte-Carlo generator for statistical hadronization in high energy e⁺e⁻ collisions

¹ Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
² INFN Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
³ Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
⁴ INFN Sezione di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

^* e-mail: christopher.bignamini@pv.infn.it

Received: 15 April 2012
Revised: 18 September 2012
Published online: 17 October 2012

Abstract

We present a Monte-Carlo implementation of the Statistical Hadronization Model in e⁺e⁻ collisions. The physical scheme is based on the statistical hadronization of massive clusters produced by the event generator Herwig within the microcanonical ensemble. We present a preliminary comparison of several observables with measurements in e⁺e⁻ collisions at the Z peak. Although a fine tuning of the model parameters is not carried out, a general good agreement between its predictions and data is found.