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After an introduction to event generators we give an overview of developments in the field of joining matrix elements with parton showers. Starting with matrix element corrections, we also discuss implementations that match LO and NLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Gieseke

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 3.3. 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 S. Frixione , B. R. Webber

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

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

A summary of recent developments in the simulation of top quark production and decay in the Herwig Monte Carlo event generator.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-19 Johannes Bellm , Kyle Cormier , Stefan Gieseke , Simon Plätzer , Christian Reuschle , Peter Richardson , Stephen Webster

Some results obtained with the new Monte Carlo event generator Herwig++ are presented. In its first version (1.0), Herwig++ is capable of simulating e+e- Annihilation events. We discuss its relevance for future e+e- colliders and show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Gieseke

The AcerMC Monte Carlo generator is dedicated to the generation of Standard Model background processes which were recognised as critical for the searches at LHC, and generation of which was either unavailable or not straightforward so far.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-15 Borut Paul Kersevan , Elzbieta Richter-Was

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

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

This is the user's manual of MC@NLO 2.3. 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 S. Frixione , B. R. Webber

This is the user's manual of MC@NLO 3.2. 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 S. Frixione , B. R. Webber

We develop a Monte Carlo event generator for Higgs Boson pair production merged to exact one-jet matrix elements. The matrix elements are generated with OpenLoops and event generation is performed with the HERWIG++ general-purpose event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Philipp Maierhöfer , Andreas Papaefstathiou

This is the user's manual of MC@NLO 3.4. 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 2008-12-04 Stefano Frixione , Bryan R. Webber

This is the user's manual of MC@NLO 3.1. 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

The HERWIG event generator was widely used throughout the workshop, particularly in the emulation of Supersymmetric and Higgs processes in the context of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We briefly review here its main features in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Moretti

With the advent and recent extension of the BLHA standard to interface Monte Carlo event generators and one-loop matrix element providers, the Herwig++ event generator has expanded its range of applicability to a multitude of underlying…

Results from the new Monte Carlo event generator Herwig++ are presented. This first version simulates Hadron Emission Reactions With Interfering Gluons in electron-positron annihilation. The parton shower evolution is carried out using new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefan Gieseke , Alberto Ribon , Michael H Seymour , Philip Stephens , Bryan Webber

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

We present the latest version 2.6 of FeynHiggs, a program for computing MSSM Higgs-boson masses and related observables, such as mixing angles, branching ratios, and couplings, including state-of-the-art higher-order contributions. The most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-10-26 T. Hahn , S. Heinemeyer , W. Hollik , H. Rzehak , G. Weiglein