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A new release of the Monte Carlo program HERWIG (version 6.4) is now available. The main new features are: spin correlations between the production and decay of heavy fermions, i.e. top quarks, tau leptons and SUSY particles; polarization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Corcella , I. G. Knowles , G. Marchesini , S. Moretti , K. Odagiri , P. Richardson , M. H. Seymour , B. R. Webber

HERWIG is a general-purpose Monte Carlo event generator, which includes the simulation of hard lepton-lepton, lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron scattering and soft hadron-hadron collisions in one package. It uses the parton-shower approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-15 G. Corcella , I. G. Knowles , G. Marchesini , S. Moretti , K. Odagiri , P. Richardson , M. H. Seymour , B. R. Webber

After an introduction to event generators we give an overview of developments in the field of joining matrix elements with parton showers. Starting with matrix element corrections, we also discuss implementations that match LO and NLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Gieseke

We present version 2.2 of the High Energy Jets (HEJ) Monte Carlo event generator for hadronic scattering processes at high energies. The new version adds support for two further processes of central phenomenological interest, namely the…

We describe the recent developments to extend the multi-parton interaction model of underlying events in Herwig++ into the soft, non-perturbative, regime. This allows the program to describe also minimum bias collisions in which there is no…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-29 Manuel Bahr , Jonathan M. Butterworth , Stefan Gieseke , Michael H. Seymour

This thesis describes the development of two independent computer programs, Herwig++ and Effective. Both of these programs are used for phenomenological predictions of high energy physics. Herwig++ is used to simulate events as measured at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip Stephens

We describe the implementation of supersymmetric processes in the HERWIG Monte Carlo event generator. We define relevant parameter and mixing conventions and list the hard scattering matrix elements. Our implementation is based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 S. Moretti , K. Odagiri , P. Richardson , M. H. Seymour , B. R. Webber

The modelling of multiple parton interactions in Monte Carlo event generators is a crucial part not only for the dressing of signal processes but also to describe data with a minimum bias on the event selection. Much work has and will be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Johannes Bellm , Stefan Gieseke , Patrick Kirchgaesser

I review all the new features of the HERWIG event generator which are relevant to Linear Collider (LC) physics starting from version 6.1

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Moretti

We introduce a new model for soft interactions in the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig. We add a new model for the simulation of diffractive final states, based on the cluster hadronization model in Herwig. The soft component of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-03 S. Gieseke , P. Kirchgaeßer , F. Loshaj

We review the modelling of multiple interactions in the event generator Herwig++ and study implications of recent tuning efforts to Tevatron and LHC data. It is often said that measurements of the effective cross section for double-parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Michael H. Seymour , Andrzej Siodmok

We present the physics foundations and recent developments of Herwig 7, the modern successor of the original HERWIG and Herwig++ series. Herwig 7 provides a flexible and systematically improvable framework for the simulation of high-energy…

We describe the program HERWIRI2.1, which implements order alpha-squared photonic radiative corrections exponentiated at the amplitude level (initial state, final state, and initial-final interference) and electroweak corrections to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-19 Scott Yost , B. F. L. Ward

This article summarizes the talk given at the LCWS 2021 conference on the status and news of the WHIZARD Monte Carlo event generator. We presented its features relevant for the physics program of future lepton and especially linear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-23 Pascal Stienemeier , Simon Braß , Pia Bredt , Wolfgang Kilian , Nils Kreher , Thorsten Ohl , Jürgen Reuter , Vincent Rothe , Tobias Striegl

In this paper we describe a new model of multiple partonic interactions that has been implemented in Herwig++. Tuning its two free parameters we find a good description of CDF underlying event data. We show extrapolations to the LHC.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Manuel Bähr , Stefan Gieseke , Michael H. Seymour

We present a Monte-Carlo implementation of the Statistical Hadronization Model in e+e- collisions. The physical scheme is based on the statistical hadronization of massive clusters produced by the event generator Herwig within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Bignamini , F. Becattini , F. Piccinini

This is the user's manual of [email protected]. This package is a practical implementation, based upon the HERWIG event generator, of the recently proposed MC@NLO formalism for matching the next-to-leading order calculation of a QCD process with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Frixione , B. R. Webber

We present the latest developments of the MadGraph/MadEvent Monte Carlo event generator and several applications to hadron collider physics. In the current version events at the parton, hadron and detector level can be generated directly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Johan Alwall , Pavel Demin , Simon de Visscher , Rikkert Frederix , Michel Herquet , Fabio Maltoni , Tilman Plehn , David L. Rainwater , Tim Stelzer

This manual describes version 1.0 of the Monte Carlo event generator KROWIG for deep inelastic lepton hadron scattering at HERA. KROWIG combines the implementation of QED radiative corrections in KRONOS with the QCD parton showers and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Thorsten Ohl

We introduce an eikonal Monte Carlo model (running in conjunction with HERWIG) for simulating multiparticle production in hadron-hadron interactions. We compare our simulated data to the CDF Tevatron measurement of the underlying event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Borozan , M. H. Seymour