pyrex.particle.GQRSInteraction.choose_inelasticity

GQRSInteraction.choose_inelasticity()

Choose an inelasticity for the particle attribute’s shower.

Generates an inelasticity based on the interaction type.

Returns

float

Inelasticity (y) value for the interaction.

Notes

The inelasticity calculation is based on the “old” calculation in AraSim (or the pickYGhandietal function in ANITA’s icemc). It is documented as “A ROUGH PARAMETRIZATION OF PLOT [7] FROM Ghandhi, Reno, Quigg, Sarcevic hep-ph/9512364 (the curves are not in their later article). There is also a slow energy dependence.”