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The structure of events in high-energy collisions is complex and not predictable from first principles. Event generators allow the problem to be subdivided into more manageable pieces, some of which can be described from first principles,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Torbjörn Sjöstrand

The paper proposes a new Monte-Carlo simulator combining the advantages of Sequential Monte Carlo simulators and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo simulators. The result is a method that is robust to multimodality and complex shapes to use for…

Computation · Statistics 2018-12-20 Remi Daviet

A general introduction is given in chapter 1. Chapter 2 outlines the main features of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics and the theoretical motivations for going beyond it. We subsequently provide brief descriptions of a few…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-30 Andreas Papaefstathiou

GENIE is a neutrino Monte Carlo event generator that simulates the primary interaction of a neutrino with a nuclear target, along with the subsequent propagation of the reaction products through the nuclear medium. It additionally contains…

In recent years a number of new theoretical models have been implemented into Monte-Carlo neutrino interaction event generators. Being able to compare multiple model predictions is invaluable to the field, especially as it is unfortunately…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-11 P. Stowell , S. Cartwright , L. Pickering , C. Wret , C. Wilkinson

We present a model for generating spacetime coordinates in the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig 7, and perform colour reconnection by minimizing a boost-invariant distance measure of the system. We compare the model to a series of soft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-20 Johannes Bellm , Cody B Duncan , Stefan Gieseke , Miroslav Myska , Andrzej Siódmok

In this talk the most recent results obtained by interfacing GoSam with external Monte Carlo event generators are presented and summarized. In the last year the automatic one-loop amplitude generator GoSam has been used for the computation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-06 Gionata Luisoni

Recently the collider physics community has seen significant advances in the formalisms and implementations of event generators. This review is a primer of the methods commonly used for the simulation of high energy physics events at…

The first version of a computer program "eett6f" for calculating cross sections of e+e- -> 6 fermions processes relevant for a t\bar{t}-pair production and decay at centre of mass energies typical for linear colliders is presented. "eett6f…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Karol Kolodziej

We present version 2.1 of the High Energy Jets (HEJ) event generator for hadron colliders. HEJ is a Monte Carlo generator for processes at high energies with multiple well-separated jets in the final state. To achieve accurate predictions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-01 Jeppe R. Andersen , James Black , Helen Brooks , Bertrand Ducloué , Marian Heil , Andreas Maier , Jennifer M. Smillie

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

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

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

Monte Carlo event generators are an essential tool for data analysis in collider physics. To include subleading quantum corrections, these generators often need to produce negative weight events, which leads to statistical dilution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-21 Benjamin Nachman , Jesse Thaler

Revisions are almost entirely in the introduction and conclusion. Results are unchanged, however the comments and recommendations on different generators were changed, and more references were added.

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 P. D. Coddington

We present an investigation of the dependence of searches for boosted Higgs bosons using jet substructure on the perturbative and non-perturbative parameters of the Herwig++ Monte Carlo event generator. Values are presented for a new tune…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Peter Richardson , David Winn

In view of the forthcoming experiments at high energy $e^+ e^-$ colliders, LEP2 and beyond, the process $e^+ e^- \to W^+ W^- \to 4f$ has been investigated for {\it off-shell} $W$'s. After deriving the matrix element for the process within…

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

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 article, we highlight physics improvements in the NuWro Monte Carlo event generator. The upcoming version of NuWro will incorporate the integration of the argon spectral function for quasi-elastic scattering, along with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-23 Hemant Prasad , Jan T. Sobczyk , Artur M. Ankowski , J. Luis Bonilla , Rwik Dharmapal Banerjee , Krzysztof M. Graczyk , Beata E. Kowal

We present a new Monte-Carlo generator, {\tt ee$\in$MC}, for the simulation of $e^{+}e^{-} \to \mu^{+} \mu^{-} (\gamma) $, $e^{+}e^{-} \to \tau^{+}\tau^{-} (\gamma) $ and $\tau$ lepton decays which is suitable for $e^{+}e^{-}$ colliders…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-06 Ian M. Nugent