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We describe the implementation of supersymmetric models in PYTHIA 8, including production and decay of superparticles and allowing for violation of flavour, CP, and R-parity. We also present a framework for importing generic new-physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Nishita Desai , Peter Z. Skands

An overview of recent developments in \pythia~8 is given. First the new hard diffraction model, which is implemented as a part of the multiparton interactions (MPI) framework, is discussed. Then the new colour reconnection model, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-28 Ilkka Helenius , Jesper R. Christiansen , Christine O. Rasmussen

First calculated results with the new HIJING++ are presented for identified hadron production in high-energy heavy ion collisions. The recently developed HIJING++ version is based on the latest version of PYTHIA8 and contains all the…

The simulation of extensive air showers is pivotal for advancing our understanding of high-energy cosmic ray interactions in Earth's atmosphere. The CORSIKA 8 framework is being developed as a modern, flexible, and efficient tool for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-22 Chloé Gaudu , Maximilian Reininghaus , Felix Riehn

This is the latest edition of the physics description and manual of the PYTHIA and JETSET programs for event generation in High Energy Physics.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Torbjorn Sjostrand

The new framework for the simulations of hard diffractive events in photoproduction within Pythia 8 is presented. The model, originally introduced for proton-proton collisions, applies the dynamical rapidity gap survival probability based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-16 Ilkka Helenius

The development and operation of large-scale particle physics facilities rely not only on accelerators and detectors, but also on sustained, high-precision simulation infrastructure. Originating in Lund in the late 1970s and continuously…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 Christian Bierlich , Leif Lönnblad , Torbjörn Sjöstrand

Recent improvements in the PYTHIA event generator are summarized: new hard subprocesses, gamma*-gamma* physics, QCD final-state showers, and more.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Torbjörn Sjöstrand

CORSIKA up to version 7 has been the most-used Monte Carlo code for simulating extensive air showers for more than 20 years. Due to its monolithic, Fortran-based software design and hand-optimized code, however, it has become difficult to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 Tim Huege , Maximilian Reininghaus

Production of quarks and gluons in hadron collisions tests Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) over a wide range of energy. Models of QCD are implemented in event generators to simulate hadron collisions and evolution of quarks and gluons into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-19 S. K. Kundu , T. Sarkar , M. Maity

We present a new framework for modeling hard diffractive events in photoproduction, implemented in the general purpose event generator Pythia 8. The model is an extension of the model for hard diffraction with dynamical gap survival in pp…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Ilkka Helenius , Christine O. Rasmussen

In this article, a framework for hadronic rescattering in the general-purpose Pythia event generator is introduced. The starting point is the recently presented space-time picture of the hadronization process. It is now extended with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Torbjörn Sjöstrand , Marius Utheim

The simulation of extensive air showers and particle cascades in general is a cornerstone of modern astroparticle physics. For more than two decades, CORSIKA, currently in version 7, has been one of the most widely used tools for this…

We have successfully developed a technique to integrate an automatic event-generator generation system GRACE and a general-purpose event generator framework PYTHIA. The codes generated by GRACE are embedded in PYTHIA in the created event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Sato , S. Tsuno , J. Fujimoto , T. Ishikawa , Y. Kurihara , S. Odaka

We present a new model for building up complete exclusive hadronic final states in high energy nucleus collisions. It is a direct extrapolation of high energy pp collisions (as described by PYTHIA), and thus bridges a large part of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-29 Christian Bierlich , Gösta Gustafson , Leif Lönnblad , Harsh Shah

Current and future neutrino oscillation experiments utilize information of hadronic final states to improve sensitivities on oscillation parameters measurements. Among the physics of hadronic systems in neutrino interactions, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Teppei Katori , Pierre Lasorak , Shivesh Mandalia , Ryan Terri

We have updated the parton and hadron cascade model PACIAE for the relativistic nuclear collisions, from based on JETSET 6.4 and PYTHIA 5.7 to based on PYTHIA 6.4, and renamed as PACIAE 2.0. The main physics concerning the stages of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Ben-Hao Sa , Dai-Mei Zhou , Yu-Liang Yan , Xiao-Mei Li , Sheng-Qin Feng , Bao-Guo Dong , Xu Cai

We present an updated set of parameters for the PYTHIA 8 event generator. We reevaluate the constraints imposed by LEP and SLD on hadronization, in particular with regard to heavy-quark fragmentation and strangeness production. For hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Peter Skands , Stefano Carrazza , Juan Rojo

The new multipurpose event-generation framework SHERPA, acronym for Simulation for High-Energy Reactions of PArticles, is presented. It is entirely written in the object-oriented programming language C++. In its current form, it is able to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 T. Gleisberg , S. Hoeche , F. Krauss , A. Schaelicke , S. Schumann , J. Winter

The evolution of the widely-used PYTHIA particle physics event generator is outlined, from the early days to the current status and plans. The key decisions and the development of the major physics components are put in context.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Torbjörn Sjöstrand