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We describe a new version of the 5D, exact, polarised, Bethe-Heitler event generator of $\gamma$-ray conversions to $e^+e^-$, developed in the context of the HARPO project, that is able to simulate successive events with different photon…
A number of techniques are being developed to solve the monstrous sensitivity gap that exists between the energy ranges of good sensitivity of the Compton and of the pair telescopes and to extend polarimetry to the MeV gamma-ray world. I…
We examine the dielectron invariant mass spectrum and the variation of the polarization asymmetry as a function of that mass in the event generator of the five-dimensional Bethe-Heitler differential cross section of the conversion of…
We benchmark various available event generators in Geant4 and EGS5 in the light of ongoing projects for high angular-resolution pair-conversion telescopes. We compare the distributions of key kinematic variables extracted from the geometry…
We describe a generator for the process $e^+e^- \to W^+W^-$ including all one-loop and leading log photonic two-loop contributions. It includes polarization of the beam and $W$ bosons, and the possibility to study the effect of anomalous…
A new event generator is proposed for two processes e+e- -> nu nu-bar gamma and e+e- -> nu nu-bar gamma gamma where nu includes all the neutrino species. The exact matrix elements of single- and double-photon emission, generated by the…
The energy dependence of the electron - positron hadronic cross section can be measured not only by a straightforward energy scan, but also by means of the radiative return method. To provide extensive comparisons between theory and…
We examine the potential for gamma-ray conversion to electron-positron pairs, either in the field of a nucleus or of an electron of a detector, to measure the fraction P of linear polarization of cosmic gamma sources. For this purpose we…
We present EKHARA Monte Carlo event generator of reactions e+e- to e+e- pi0 and e+e- to e+e- pi+pi-. The newly added channel (e+e- to e+e-pi0) is important for gamma*gamma* physics and can be used for the pion transition form factor studies…
Structured {\gamma} rays, particularly cylindrical vector {\gamma} rays, offer promising tools for sub-nuclear imaging and polarization-sensitive probes in fundamental research and applications, but conventional optical methods face great…
The Monte Carlo generator EKHARA allows to simulate the process (e+e- to e+e-pi0) at energies of meson factories. We review the motivation, describe the current status of the generator, and discuss features, which will appear in the…
A Monte Carlo generator (EKHARA) has been constructed to simulate the reaction e+e- -> pi+pi-e+e- based on initial and final state emission of a e+e- pair from e+e- -> pi+pi- production diagram.A detailed study of the process, as a…
We present the NGAMMA Monte Carlo event generator for QED processes of $e^+e^-$ annihilation into a multiphoton final state, $e^+e^-\to N\gamma (N \ge 2)$. These processes are an important source of background in the study of $e^+e^-\to…
We describe the physics and computational power of GRANIITTI Monte Carlo event generator, a new fully multithreaded engine designed for high energy diffraction, written in modern C++. The emphasis is especially on the low-mass domain of…
The cross-section for the process $\gamma + A \to \mu^+ + \mu^- + X$ is studied where the photon energy is of the order of several hundreds of GeV and where one of the leptons is scattered to large angles. This is of practical importance…
The complete tree level cross section for the process $e^+e^- \to e^- \bar\nu_e u \bar{d}$ is computed using the GRACE system, a program package for automatic amplitude calculation. Special attention is brought to the gauge violation…
The report from the working group on '\gamma\gamma Event Generators' of the LEP 2 workshop
We present a new Monte-Carlo generator, {\tt ee$\in$MC}, for the simulation of $e^{+}e^{-} \to \mu^{+} \mu^{-} (\gamma) $, $e^{+}e^{-} \to \tau^{+}\tau^{-} (\gamma) $ and $\tau$ lepton decays which is suitable for $e^{+}e^{-}$ colliders…
Charged current events are studied at HERA with polarized beams, using a Monte Carlo event generator and taking into account detector smearing effects. The observed asymmetries are used to study the extraction of the polarized structure…
A fast leading-order Monte Carlo generator for the process $e^+e^-\to\mu^+\mu^-\gamma$ is described. In fact, using the $e^+e^-\to\mu^+\mu^-\gamma $ process as an example, we provide a pedagogical demonstration of how a Monte Carlo…