Contributions to the CATFISH program

The CATFISH Monte Carlo code has been written and developed by Marco Cavaglià (University of Mississippi).

When using CATFISH, the following reference must be acknowledged:

The trapped-surface model for black hole formation is based on

• H. Yoshino and Y. Nambu, Phys. Rev. D67, 024009 (2003) [arXiv:gr-qc/0209003]
• H. Yoshino and V.S. Rychkov, Phys. Rev. D71, 104028 (2005) [arXiv:hep-th/0503171]

The implementation of dilepton invariant mass and the editing of this manual was done by Arunava Roy (University of Mississippi).

Fragmentation and hadronization of the black hole primary quanta during Hawking evaporation are implemented with the PYTHIA (6.406) code.

Plots, histograms and detector response simulations have been made by Romulus Godang (University of Mississippi).

The Mac OS X binaries have been compiled by David Sanders (University of Mississippi).

CATFISH thanks Vitor Cardoso, David Cline, Lucien Cremaldi, Alakabha Datta, Doug Gingrich, Romulus Godang, Greg Landsberg, Alexander Melnitchouk, Peter Skands, Don Summers, Xerxes Tata, Hans Wenzel and Graham Wilson for discussions and suggestions.

Contributions to the CATFISH code from independent researchers are welcomed. If you want to contribute to the CATFISH Monte Carlo program, please contact us.