A proposal for a standard interface between Monte Carlo tools and one-loop programs
Abstract
Many highly developed Monte Carlo tools for the evaluation of cross sections based on tree matrix elements exist and are used by experimental collaborations in high energy physics. As the evaluation of one-loop matrix elements has recently been undergoing enormous progress, the combination of one-loop matrix elements with existing Monte Carlo tools is on the horizon. This would lead to phenomenological predictions at the next-to-leading order level. This note summarises the discussion of the next-to-leading order multi-leg (NLM) working group on this issue which has been taking place during the workshop on Physics at TeV colliders at Les Houches, France, in June 2009. The result is a proposal for a standard interface between Monte Carlo tools and one-loop matrix element programs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1001.1307,
title = {A proposal for a standard interface between Monte Carlo tools and one-loop programs},
author = {T. Binoth and F. Boudjema and G. Dissertori and A. Lazopoulos and A. Denner and S. Dittmaier and R. Frederix and N. Greiner and S. Hoche and W. Giele and P. Skands and J. Winter and T. Gleisberg and J. Archibald and G. Heinrich and F. Krauss and D. Maitre and M. Huber and J. Huston and N. Kauer and F. Maltoni and C. Oleari and G. Passarino and R. Pittau and S. Pozzorini and T. Reiter and S. Schumann and G. Zanderighi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.1307},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Dedicated to the memory of, and in tribute to, Thomas Binoth, who led the effort to develop this proposal for Les Houches 2009. Minor changes