Monte Carlo tuning and generator validation
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-06-02 v1
Abstract
We present the Monte Carlo generator tuning strategy followed, and the tools developed, by the MCnet CEDAR project. We also present new tuning results for the Pythia 6.4 event generator which are based on event shape and hadronisation observables from e+e- experiments, and on underlying event and minimum bias data from the Tevatron. Our new tunes are compared to existing tunes and to Peter Skands' new "Perugia" tunes.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.0906.0075,
title = {Monte Carlo tuning and generator validation},
author = {Andy Buckley and Hendrik Hoeth and Heiko Lacker and Holger Schulz and Eike von Seggern},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.0075},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Talk given by Hendrik Hoeth at the First International Workshop on Multiple Partonic Interactions at the LHC, "MPI@LHC'08", Perugia, Italy, 27-31 Oct 2008