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In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end approach for AI-assisted code completion called Pythia. It generates ranked lists of method and API recommendations which can be used by software developers at edit time. The system is currently…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Ying Zhao , Shengyu Fu , Neel Sundaresan

The PYTHIA program can be used to generate high-energy-physics `events', i.e. sets of outgoing particles produced in the interactions between two incoming particles. The objective is to provide as accurate as possible a representation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Torbjorn Sjostrand , Stephen Mrenna , Peter Skands

MadGraph 5 is the new version of the MadGraph matrix element generator, written in the Python programming language. It implements a number of new, efficient algorithms that provide improved performance and functionality in all aspects of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Johan Alwall , Michel Herquet , Fabio Maltoni , Olivier Mattelaer , Tim Stelzer

A new release of the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig++ (version 2.7) is now available. This version comes with a number of improvements including: an interface to the Universal FeynRules Output (UFO) format allowing the simulation of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-28 J. Bellm , S. Gieseke , D. Grellscheid , A. Papaefstathiou , S. Platzer , P. Richardson , C. Rohr , T. Schuh , M. H. Seymour , A. Siodmok , A. Wilcock , B. Zimmermann

SPYTHIA is an event level Monte Carlo program which simulates particle production and decay at lepton and hadron colliders in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). It is an extension of PYTHIA 5.7, with all of its previous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 S. Mrenna

This document describes the strategies for the development of the Pythia7 program. Both the internal and external structure of the program is discussed. Some comments on relationship to other software is given as well as some comments on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Leif Lonnblad

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

The PYTHIA program can be used to generate high-energy-physics `events', i.e. sets of outgoing particles produced in the interactions between two incoming particles. The objective is to provide as accurate as possible a representation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Torbjörn Sjöstrand , Leif Lönnblad , Stephen Mrenna , Peter Skands

Current and future challenges in astroparticle physics require novel simulation tools to achieve higher precision and more flexibility. For three decades the FORTRAN version of CORSIKA served the community in an excellent way. However, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-21 Maximilian Reininghaus , Ralf Ulrich

The GR@PPA event generator has been updated to version 2.7. This distribution provides event generators for $V$ ($W$ or $Z$) + jets ($\leq$ 4 jets), $VV$ + jets ($\leq$ 2 jets) and QCD multi-jet ($\leq$ 4 jets) production processes at $pp$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Tsuno , T. Kaneko , Y. Kurihara , S. Odaka , K. Kato

This is the manual of the specialized event generator TopReX 3.25. The generator provides the simulation of several important processes in pp and p pbar collisions, not implemented in PYTHIA (yet). Some of these processes include t-quarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 S. R. Slabospitsky , L. Sonnenschein

I describe the current status of MCnet tools for validating the performance of event generator simulations against data, and for tuning their phenomenological free parameters. For validation, the Rivet toolkit is now a mature and complete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-09-29 Andy Buckley

CORSIKA 8 represents a significant update in the simulation of particle showers, building on the well-established foundation of CORSIKA 7. It has been entirely rewritten as a modular and modern C++ framework, addressing the limitations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-13 Marvin Gottowik

We report an underlying event tune for the PYTHIA 8 Monte Carlo event generator that is applicable for hadron collisions primarily at $\sqrt{s}$ ranges available at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). We compare our new PYTHIA 8…

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

Event generators like Pythia play an important role in physics studies at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). While they make accurate predictions in the central region, i.e. at pseudorapidities $\eta<5$, a disagreement between Pythia and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-18 Max Fieg , Felix Kling , Holger Schulz , Torbjörn Sjöstrand

Fortran is the oldest high-level programming language that remains in use today and is one of the dominant languages used for compute-intensive scientific and engineering applications. However, Fortran has not kept up with the modern…

The influence of the Pt_hat cutoff on the production of bB events in Pythia has been studied. Versions 5.75, 6.115 and 6.152 have been considered.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Simone Gennai

We have developed an event generator, named GR@PPA_4b, for the four bottom quark (b bbar b bbar) production processes at PP and PPbar collisions. The program implements all of the possible processes at the tree level within the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 S. Tsuno , K. Sato , J. Fujimoto , T. Ishikawa , Y. Kurihara , S. Odaka , Y. Takaiwa , T. Abe

CompHEP, as a partonic event generator, and PYTHIA, as a generator of final states of detectable objects, are interfaced. Thus, integrated tool is proposed for simulation of (almost) arbitrary collision processes at the level of detectable…