Space–time picture of fragmentation in Pythia/Jetset for HERMES and RHIC

Abstract: We examine the space–time evolution of (pre-)hadron production within the Lund string fragmentation model. The complete four-dimensional information of the string breaking vertices and the meeting points of the prehadron constituents are extracted for each single event in Monte Carlo simulations using the Jetset-part of Pythia. We discuss the implication on the deep inelastic lepton scattering experiments at HERMES as well as on observables in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC, using Pythia also for modeling the hard part of the interaction. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]