d–Au and p–p collisions at RHIC and the multichain Monte Carlo Dpmjet-III ∗

In this paper we compare systematically the two-component Dual Parton Model (DPM) event generator Dpm-jet-III to d-Au and p–p data from RHIC. In this process we are able to improve the model. The need for fusion of chains and a recalibration of the model to obtain collision scaling in h-A and d-A collisions was found already in previous comparisons. Here, comparing to transverse momentum distributions of identified charged hadrons we find also the need to modify the transverse momentum distributions in the decay of hadronic strings, the basic building blocks of the model on soft hadronic collisions.