EPOS LHC: Test of collective hadronization with data measured at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Epos is a Monte Carlo event generator for minimum bias hadronic interactions, used for both heavy ion interactions and cosmic ray air shower simulations. Since the last public release in 2009, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments have provided a number of very interesting data sets comprising minimum bias $p\text{\ensuremath{-}}p,\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}p$-Pb, and Pb-Pb interactions. We describe the changes required to the model to reproduce in detail the new data available from the LHC and the consequences in the interpretation of these data. In particular we discuss the effect of the collective hadronization in $p\text{\ensuremath{-}}p$ scattering. A different parametrization of flow has been…