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We present an extended version of THERMINATOR, a Monte Carlo event generator dedicated to studies of the statistical production of particles in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The increased functionality of the code contains the…
Being motivated by the surge of fermionic quantum Monte Carlo simulations at finite temperature, we present a detailed analysis of the permutation-cycle properties of path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of degenerate electrons.…
We present a next generation of multi-particle Monte Carlo (MC) Event generators for LHC and ILC for the MSSM, namely the three program packages Madgraph/MadEvent, WHiZard/O'Mega and Sherpa/Amegic++. The interesting but difficult…
We present quantum Monte Carlo simulations for the chiral Heisenberg Gross-Neveu-Yukawa quantum phase transition of relativistic fermions with $N=4$ Dirac spinor components subject to a repulsive, local four fermion interaction in 2+1$d$.…
This paper presents a new event generator, ALPGEN, dedicated to the study of multiparton hard processes in hadronic collisions. The code performs, at the leading order in QCD and EW interactions, the calculation of the exact matrix elements…
We present an algorithm for unweighted event generation in the partonic process pp -> WZ (j) with leptonic decays at next-to-leading order in alpha_S. Monte Carlo programs for processes such as this frequently generate events with negative…
We study predictions for the reaction $e^+e^- \to {\bar \nu} \nu (n \gamma)$. The complete one-loop corrections are taken into account and higher order contributions, in particular those for the observed real photons, are added whenever…
We study a quantum phase transition from a massless to massive Dirac fermion phase in a new two-dimensional bipartite lattice model of electrons that is amenable to sign-free quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Importantly, interactions in our…
We investigate a bilayer honeycomb lattice model of spin-1/2 fermions at half-filling with local Heisenberg coupling of fermion spins across the two layers. Using variational Monte Carlo (VMC) simulation, we demonstrate that the system…
A generator with $\alpha^2$ order radiative correction effects, including both the initial state radiative corrections and the photon vacuum polarization corrections, is built for the full simulation of $e^+e^- \to hadrons $ in cross…
We review the available event generators suited for multi-fermion final state production in the context of physics studies at a future Linear Collider (LC)
In its second phase, LEP has given the unique opportunity to study four fermion processes never observed before. This papers deals with a preliminary study of $WW$, $We\nu$, $ZZ$ and $Z\gamma^\star$ production in $e^+e^-$ collisions.…
We describe the salient features of precise predictions for the processes e+ e- -> WW -> 4f(gamma) as obtained with the Monte Carlo generator RacoonWW, including the complete O(alpha) electroweak radiative corrections in the double-pole…
The version 1.51 of the Monte Carlo (MC) program KoralW for all $e^+e^-\to f_1\bar f_2 f_3\bar f_4$ processes is presented. The most important change since the previous version 1.42 is the facility for writing MC events on the mass storage…
A Monte Carlo event generator has been developed assuming thermal production of hadrons. The system under consideration is sampled grand canonically in the Boltzmann approximation. A re-weighting scheme is then introduced to account for…
We present precision calculations of the processes e+ e- -> 4-fermions in which the double resonant W+ W- and ZZ intermediate states occur. Referring to these latter intermediate states as the 'signal processes', we show that, by using the…
LUSIFER is a Monte Carlo event generator for all processes e+e-->6fermions, which is based on the multi-channel Monte Carlo integration technique and employs the full set of tree-level diagrams. External fermions are taken to be massless,…
We describe how to use ZFITTER, a program based on a semi-analytical approach to fermion pair production in e+e- annihilation and Bhabha scattering. A flexible treatment of complete ${\cal O}(\alpha)$ QED corrections, also including higher…
We present a general classification of all four fermion final states in $\gamma\gamma$~collisions and a calculation of cross sections below the $W^+W^-$-threshold.
We have constructed a Monte Carlo generator for lowest-order predictions for the processes gamma gamma -> 4f and gamma gamma -> 4f+gamma in the Standard Model and extensions thereof by an effective gamma gamma Higgs coupling as well as…