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We present a Monte Carlo event generator specifically developed for the study of hadronic two-photon fusion events in two-photon scattering at electron-positron colliders. The code enables the generation of events with exact leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Max Lellmann , Igor Danilkin , Achim Denig , Jan Muskalla , Christoph F. Redmer , Xiu-Lei Ren , Marc Vanderhaeghen

This publication presents the combination of the one-loop matrix-element generator Recola with the multipurpose Monte Carlo program Sherpa. Since both programs are highly automated, the resulting Sherpa+Recola framework allows for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-10 Benedikt Biedermann , Stephan Bräuer , Ansgar Denner , Mathieu Pellen , Steffen Schumann , Jennifer M. Thompson

The Monte Carlo program {\tt WWGENPV}, designed for computing distributions and generating events for four-fermion production in $e^+ e^- $ collisions, is described. The new version, 2.0, includes the full set of the electroweak (EW)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 D. G. Charlton , G. Montagna , O. Nicrosini , F. Piccinini

This paper presents an overview of Monte Carlo(MC) event generators for simulation of proton-proton collisions along with the results on hadron production at Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) energies. Namely, mean…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-31 Maxim Azarkin , Martin Kirakosyan

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

Monte Carlo event generators are in a modern terminology the digital twins of collider-based particle physics experiment. We give an introduction into the application of MC generators for particle physics, discuss their different components…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 Jürgen Reuter

A new Monte Carlo program for photohadronic interactions of relativistic nucleons with an ambient photon radiation field is presented. The event generator is designed to fulfil typical astrophysical requirements, but can also be used for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 A. Muecke , Ralph Engel , J. P. Rachen , R. J. Protheroe , Todor Stanev

Monte Carlo Event Generators are tools for simulating outcomes of high-energy collisions and particle production in High Energy Physics (HEP), such as those conducted at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Two of the most widely used…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-05 Saliha Bashir , Agnieszka Obłąkowska-Mucha , Gloria Corti

We present precision results for distributions in global event shapes that can be measured at hadron colliders within experimental limitations. These predictions are obtained by combining exact next-to-leading order (NLO) with the all-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-04 Andrea Banfi

Polyhedral nanocrystals are building blocks for nanostructured materials that find applications in catalysis and plasmonics. Synthesis efforts and self-assembly experiments have been assisted by computer simulations that predict phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-01 Marco Klement , Sangmin Lee , Joshua A. Anderson , Michael Engel

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 the Monte Carlo event generator {\tt WOPPER} for pair production of $W$'s and their decays at high energy $e^+e^-$ colliders. {\tt WOPPER} includes the effects from finite $W$ width and focusses on the calculation of higher order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 H. Anlauf , H. D. Dahmen , P. Manakos , T. Mannel , WOPPER

Event generators play a crucial role in the exploration of LHC physics. This presentation summarizes news and plans for the three general-purpose pp generators HERWIG, PYTHIA and SHERPA, as well as briefer notes on a few other generators.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Torbjörn Sjöstrand

Monte Carlo Event Generators are important tools for the understanding of physics at particle colliders like the LHC. In order to best predict a wide variety of observables, the optimization of parameters in the Event Generators based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Johannes Bellm , Leif Gellersen

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

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

A new release of the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig (version 7.2) is now available. This version introduces a number of improvements, notably: improvements to the simulation of multiple-parton interactions, including diffractive…

In this paper we describe Herwig++ version 2.3, a general-purpose Monte Carlo event generator for the simulation of hard lepton-lepton, lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron collisions. A number of important hard scattering processes are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 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 present precise predictions for prompt photon production in association with a $Z$ boson and jets. They are obtained within the Sherpa framework as a consistently merged inclusive sample. Leptonic decays of the $Z$ boson are fully…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Johannes Krause , Frank Siegert

A new version of the Monte Carlo event generator DPMJET is presented. It is a code system based on the Dual Parton Model and unifies all features of the DTUNUC-2, DPMJET-II and PHOJET 1.12 event generators. DPMJET-III allows the simulation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Stefan Roesler , Ralph Engel , Johannes Ranft