Monte Carlo Event Generators
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2013-04-25 v1
Abstract
Monte Carlo event generators are essential components of almost all experimental analyses and are also widely used by theorists and experiments to make predictions and preparations for future experiments. They are all too often used as "black boxes", without sufficient consideration of their component models or their reliability. In this set of three lectures we hope to open the box and explain the physical bases behind the models they use. We focus primarily on the general features of parton showers, hadronization and underlying event generation.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1304.6677,
title = {Monte Carlo Event Generators},
author = {Michael H. Seymour and Marilyn Marx},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.6677},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Lectures given at 69th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics (SUSSP 69), St. Andrews, 19th August - 1st September 2012