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We study the reaction e+e- --> e+e-pi0 and measure the gamma gamma* --> pi0 transition form factor in the momentum transfer range from 4 to 40 GeV^2. The analysis is based on 442 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity collected at PEP-II with the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-04-12 The BABAR Collaboration , B. Aubert

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

We present the Monte Carlo program BHAGEN95, for calculating the cross-section of the Bhabha scattering process at LEP1/SLC and LEP2 energies, usable with continuity from small to large-angle configurations. We discuss some improvements in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Caffo , H. Czyz , E. Remiddi

A measurement of the beauty production cross section in ep collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 319 GeV is presented. The data were collected with the H1 detector at the HERA collider in the years 1999-2000. Events are selected by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 H1 Collaboration

We compare the three general-purpose Monte Carlo event generators, HERWIG, PYTHIA, and SHEPRA for jet photoproduction processes in $e^+e^-$ and $ep$ collisions. Due to the lower energy scales probed, photoproduction is particularly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 Ilkka Helenius , Peter Meinzinger , Simon Plätzer , Peter Richardson

The light unflavoured meson $\eta/\eta^{\prime}$ decays are valuable for testing non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics and exploring new physics beyond the Standard Model. This paper describes a series of event generators, including…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-12-11 Nian Qin , Zhen-Yu Zhang , Shuang-Shi Fang , Xiang Zhou , Lin-Lin Du , Hao-Xue Qiao

To measure the $R$ value in an energy scan experiment with $\ee$ collisions, precise calculation of initial state radiation is required in event generators. We present an event generator for this consideration, which incorporates initial…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-14 Rong-Gang Ping , Xi-An Xiong , Lei Xia , Zhen Gao , Ying-Tian Li , Xing-Yu Zhou , Bing-Xin Zhang , Bo Zheng Wen-Biao Yan , Hai-Ming Hu , Guang-Shun Huang

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

We present the NGAMMA Monte Carlo event generator for QED processes of $e^+e^-$ annihilation into a multiphoton final state, $e^+e^-\to N\gamma (N \ge 2)$. These processes are an important source of background in the study of $e^+e^-\to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 L. V. Kardapoltsev , N. A. Melnikova

We have developed a Monte Carlo event generator for non-resonant diphoton ($\gamma\gamma$) production at hadron collisions in the framework of GR@PPA, which consistently includes additional one-jet production. The jet-matching method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Shigeru Odaka , Yoshimasa Kurihara

Recently, various cross sections of e+e- annihilation into hadrons were accurately measured in the energy range from 0.37 to 1.39 GeV with the CMD-2 detector at the VEPP-2M collider. In the pi+pi- channel a systematic uncertainty of 0.6%…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 A. B. Arbuzov , G. V. Fedotovich , F. V. Ignatov , E. A. Kuraev , A. L. Sibidanov

We classify the possible deviations from the Standard Model in the QED-dominated $\mathrm{e^+e^-}\rightarrow\gamma\gamma$ process under the assumption of a preserved $SU(2)_L \times U(1)_Y$ symmetry. We find that the only deviations really…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-16 J. Alcaraz Maestre

The GR@PPA event generator has been updated to version 2.7. This distribution provides event generators for $V$ ($W$ or $Z$) + jets ($\leq$ 4 jets), $VV$ + jets ($\leq$ 2 jets) and QCD multi-jet ($\leq$ 4 jets) production processes at $pp$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Tsuno , T. Kaneko , Y. Kurihara , S. Odaka , K. Kato

We have developed an event generator, named GR@PPA_4b, for the four bottom quark (b bbar b bbar) production processes at PP and PPbar collisions. The program implements all of the possible processes at the tree level within the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 S. Tsuno , K. Sato , J. Fujimoto , T. Ishikawa , Y. Kurihara , S. Odaka , Y. Takaiwa , T. Abe

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

A Monte Carlo event generator is presented. An original algorithm is developed to simulate electron-positron scattering at energies and momentum transferred much more than the electron mass. The first-order electroweak radiative corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. B. Arbuzov

BHAGEN-1PH is a FORTRAN program providing fast Monte Carlo event generation of the process $e^+ e^- \to e^+ e^- \gamma$, within electroweak theory, for both unpolarized beams and also for the longitudinally polarized electron beam. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 M. Caffo , H. Czyz

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…

In this paper we present a numerical implementation of the one-loop QED corrections to the hard-bremsstrahlung process e- e+ \to e- e+ gamma. These corrections can be included in the Monte Carlo event generators employed for simulating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-22 Stefano Actis , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Giovanni Ossola

In this paper we present a comparative study between PYTHIA, EPOS, QGSJET, and SIBYLL generators. The global event observables considered are the charged energy flow, charged-particle distributions, charged-hadron production ratios and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Alexandru Catalin Ene , Alexandru Jipa , Lavinia-Elena Giubega