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We use HERWIRI1.031, a new Monte Carlo event generator for hadron-hadron scattering at high energies, to study the phenomenological effects of our approach of exact amplitude-based resummation in precision QCD calculations. W + jet(s)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-29 B. Shakerin , B. F. L. Ward

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

This is the user's manual of MC@NLO 2.0. This package is a practical implementation, based upon the HERWIG event generator, of the MC@NLO formalism, which allows one to incorporate NLO QCD matrix elements consistently into a parton shower…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefano Frixione , Bryan R Webber

Sherpa is a general-purpose Monte Carlo event generator for the simulation of particle collisions in high-energy collider experiments. We summarise new developments, essential features, and ongoing improvements within the Sherpa 3 release…

We present parameter sets corresponding to new underlying event tunes for the Herwig7.3 Monte Carlo event generator. The existing Herwig tunes are in good agreement with LHC data, however, they are not typically designed for center-of-mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-30 Umar Sohail Qureshi , Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , Luke Mozarsky , Helen Caines , Isaac Mooney

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…

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

We present an extension to the colour reconnection model in the Monte-Carlo event generator Herwig to account for the production of baryons and compare it to a series of observables for soft physics. The new model is able to improve the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-05 Stefan Gieseke , Patrick Kirchgaeßer , Simon Plätzer

Herwig++ is the successor of the event generator HERWIG. In its present version 2.2.1 it provides a program for full LHC event generation which is superior to the previous program in many respects. We briefly summarize its features and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-09-12 M. Bahr , S. Gieseke , M. A. Gigg , D. Grellscheid , K. Hamilton , O. Latunde-Dada , S. Platzer , P. Richardson , M. H. Seymour , A. Sherstnev , J. Tully , B. R. Webber

We propose changes to the colour reconnection model in the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig in order to remove the quasi diffractive events from the soft multiple parton interactions. We then implement explicitly soft diffraction and show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-16 Stefan Gieseke , Frasher Loshaj , Miroslav Myska

We introduce the recently developed IR-improved DGLAP-CS theory into the showers in Pythia8, as this Monte Carlo event generator is in wide use at LHC. We show that, just as it was true in the IR-improved shower Monte Carlo Herwiri, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 B. F. L. Ward

The structure of events in high-energy collisions is complex and not predictable from first principles. Event generators allow the problem to be subdivided into more manageable pieces, some of which can be described from first principles,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Torbjörn Sjöstrand

We present an upgraded version (denoted as version 2.0) of the program HELAC-Onia for the automated computation of heavy-quarkonium helicity amplitudes within non-relativistic QCD framework. The new code has been designed to include many…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-14 Hua-Sheng Shao

The new IR-improved Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi-Callan-Symanzik (DGLAP-CS) kernels recently developed by one of us is implemented in the HERWIG6.5 environment to generate a new MC, HERWIRI1.0(31), for hadron-hadron scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-14 B. F. L. Ward , S. A. Yost

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

In this article, we highlight physics improvements in the NuWro Monte Carlo event generator. The upcoming version of NuWro will incorporate the integration of the argon spectral function for quasi-elastic scattering, along with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-23 Hemant Prasad , Jan T. Sobczyk , Artur M. Ankowski , J. Luis Bonilla , Rwik Dharmapal Banerjee , Krzysztof M. Graczyk , Beata E. Kowal

We present the implementation of a next-to-leading-order plus parton-shower event generator for the hadronic production of a heavy charm quark accompanied by a leptonically-decaying $W$ boson in the POWHEG BOX RES framework. We consider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Silvia Ferrario Ravasio , Carlo Oleari

We review the physics basis, main features and use of general-purpose Monte Carlo event generators for the simulation of proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Topics included are: the generation of hard-scattering matrix…

General-purpose Monte Carlo event generators have become important tools in particle physics, allowing the simulation of exclusive hadronic final states. In this article we examine the Pythia 8 generator, in particular focusing on its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-18 Richard Corke , Torbjörn Sjöstrand

The AcerMC Monte Carlo generator gives a possibility to generate some of the Standard Model background processes which were recognised as very dangerous for the searches at LHC, and generation of which was either unavailable or not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Borut Paul Kersevan , Elzbieta Richter-Was