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The Generic Geant4 Simulation (GGS) is a package designed to speed-up the realization and deployment of Monte Carlo simulation software based on Geant4, for small- and medium-sized high-energy experiments. For many common use cases, the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-04-22 Nicola Mori

An important area of high energy physics studies at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) currently concerns the need for more extensive and precise comparison data. Important tools in this realm are event reweighing and evaluation of more…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Zenny Wettersten , Olivier Mattelaer , Stefan Roiser , Robert Schöfbeck , Andrea Valassi

This article provides an introduction to the principles of particle physics event generators that are based on the Monte Carlo method. Following some preliminaries, instructions on how to build a basic parton-level Monte Carlo event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-16 Andreas Papaefstathiou

New sets of parameters ("tunes") for the underlying-event (UE) modeling of the PYTHIA8, PYTHIA6 and HERWIG++ Monte Carlo event generators are constructed using different parton distribution functions. Combined fits to CMS UE proton-proton…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-03-21 CMS Collaboration

In this article we present an event generator based on the Monte Carlo program Powheg in combination with the matrix-element generator Recola. We apply it to compute NLO electroweak corrections to same-sign W-boson scattering, which have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Mauro Chiesa , Ansgar Denner , Jean-Nicolas Lang , Mathieu Pellen

A Monte Carlo framework, MaGe, has been developed based on the Geant4 simulation toolkit. Its purpose is to simulate physics processes in low-energy and low-background radiation detectors, specifically for the Majorana and Gerda $^{76}$Ge…

The project, aimed at the theoretical support of experiments at modern and future accelerators -- TEVATRON, LHC, electron Linear Colliders (TESLA, NLC, CLIC) and muon factories, is presented. Within this project a four-level computer system…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Andonov , D. Bardin , S. Bondarenko , P. Christova , L. Kalinovskaya , G. Nanava , G. Passarino

We present EEXICC, a Monte Carlo event generator designed to simulate the production of doubly heavy baryons ($\Xi_{cc}$, $\Xi_{bc}$, and $\Xi_{bb}$) via $e^+e^-$ annihilation. Based on nonrelativistic QCD effective theory, the generator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Hong-Tai Li , Xu-Chang Zheng , Xing-Gang Wu , Jiang Yan , Zhi Yang

Ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions (UPCs) provide a distinct environment for high-energy QCD research, focusing on the production of vector mesons. This proceeding details recent advancements in the Sar$t$re Monte Carlo event generator,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Vaidehi Nattoja , Tobias Toll

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

Given the current landscape in experimental high-energy physics, these lectures are focused on applications of event generators for hadron colliders like the Tevatron and LHC. Section 2 contains a first overview of the physics picture and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-30 Torbjörn Sjöstrand

We present the EpIC Monte Carlo event generator for exclusive processes sensitive to generalised parton distributions. EpIC utilises the PARTONS framework, which provides a flexible software architecture and a variety of modelling options…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-28 E. C. Aschenauer , V. Batozskaya , S. Fazio , K. Gates , H. Moutarde , D. Sokhan , H. Spiesberger , P. Sznajder , K. Tezgin

This is the user's manual of MC@NLO 4.0. This package is a practical implementation, based upon the Fortran HERWIG and Herwig++ event generators, of the MC@NLO formalism, which allows one to incorporate NLO QCD matrix elements consistently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-06 Stefano Frixione , Fabian Stoeckli , Paolo Torrielli , Bryan R. Webber , Chris D. White

Accurate predictions for both signal and background events at the LHC are of paramount importance in order to confirm even the smallest deviations from Standard Model predictions. Next-to-leading order Monte Carlo event generators are an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-30 Carole Weydert

We present a generator for lepton nucleon collisions in the DIS regime, focusing in particular on processes with a massive lepton and/or a massive quark in the final state. We have built a full code matching NLO QCD corrections to parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-10 Luca Buonocore , Giovanni Limatola , Paolo Nason , Francesco Tramontano

We present a NNLO QCD accurate event generator for direct photon pair production at hadron colliders, based on the MiNNLOPS formalism, within the POWHEG BOX RES framework. Despite the presence of the photons requires the use of isolation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-28 Alessandro Gavardi , Carlo Oleari , Emanuele Re

The Monte Carlo (MC) simulation method is a powerful tool for radiation physicists, and several general-purpose software packages are commonly applied in a myriad of different radiation physics fields today. In medical physics, charged…

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

We compare Monte Carlo event generators dedicated to simulating the production and decay of extra-dimensional black holes at the Large Hadron Collider.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Douglas M. Gingrich

GENIE is a new neutrino event generator for the experimental neutrino physics community. The goal of the project is to develop a `canonical' neutrino interaction physics Monte Carlo whose validity extends to all nuclear targets and neutrino…