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We present a novel saturation and leading order collinear factorization based Monte-Carlo implementation of the EKRT model for computing QCD matter initial states in high-energy nuclear collisions. As new features the MC implementation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Harri Niemi , Jussi Auvinen , Kari J. Eskola , Henry Hirvonen , Yuuka Kanakubo , Mikko Kuha

Monte Carlo event generators are the central interface between theoretical calculations and experimental measurements in collider physics. Over several decades, a comprehensive and highly modular ecosystem of tools has developed around…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-18 Melissa van Beekveld , Enrico Bothmann , Andy Buckley , Christian Gütschow , Peter Skands , Ramon Winterhalder

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

We present a new Fortran Monte Carlo generator to simulate black hole events at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The generator interfaces to the PYTHIA Monte Carlo fragmentation code. The physics of the BH generator includes, but not limited…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Cavaglia , R. Godang , L. Cremaldi , D. Summers

grc4f is a Monte-Carlo package for generating e+e- to 4-fermion processes in the standard model. All of the 76 LEP-2 allowed fermionic final state processes evaluated at tree level are included in version 1.0. grc4f addresses event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Fujimoto , T. Ishikawa , T. Kaneko , K. Kato , S. Kawabata , Y. Kurihara , T. Munehisa , D. Perret-Gallix , Y. Shimizu , H. Tanaka

We propose a simple method to simulate $W/Z$ + jet productions at hadron collisions. The simulation can be done by using existing tools with some modifications allowed to users. $W/Z$ + 1 jet events are generated using an ME-based event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Shigeru Odaka

In this contribution we describe the new model of multiple partonic interactions (MPI) that has been implemented in Herwig++. Tuning its two free parameters is enough to find a good description of CDF underlying event data. We show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-09-17 Manuel Bähr , Stefan Gieseke , Michael H. Seymour

APACIC++ is a Monte-Carlo event-generator dedicated for the simulation of electron-positron annihilations into jets. Within the framework of APACIC++, the emergence of jets is identified with the perturbative production of partons as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Kuhn , F. Krauss , B. Ivanyi , G. Soff

Jet clustering algorithms are widely used to analyse hadronic events in high energy collisions. Recently a new clustering method, known as `Cambridge', has been introduced. In this article we present an algorithm to determine the transition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 Stan Bentvelsen , Irmtraud Meyer

The new matrix element generator AMEGIC++ is introduced, dedicated to describe multi-particle production in high energy particle collisions. It automatically generates helicity amplitudes for the processes under consideration and constructs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Krauss , R. Kuhn , G. Soff

In this contribution we describe a new model of multiple partonic interactions that has been implemented in Herwig++. Tuning its two free parameters we find a good description of CDF underlying event data. We show extrapolations to the LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-06-27 Manuel Bähr , Stefan Gieseke , Michael H. Seymour

We present EKHARA Monte Carlo event generator of reactions e+e- to e+e- pi0 and e+e- to e+e- pi+pi-. The newly added channel (e+e- to e+e-pi0) is important for gamma*gamma* physics and can be used for the pion transition form factor studies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-05 Henryk Czyz , Sergiy Ivashyn

This contribution lists challenges of Monte Carlo event generators for future lepton, especially linear colliders. A lot of the recent development benefits from the achievements at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), but several aspects are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-19 Jürgen Reuter

The Monte Carlo integrator HAWK provides precision predictions for Higgs production at hadron colliders in vector-boson fusion and Higgs strahlung, i.e. in production processes where the Higgs boson is Attached to WeaK bosons. The fully…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-04 Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier , Stefan Kallweit , Alexander Mück

The Monte Carlo program KoralW version 1.42 is presented. It generates all four-fermion final states with multibranch dedicated Monte Carlo pre-samplers and complete, massive, Born matrix elements. The presamplers cover the entire phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Jadach , W. Placzek , M. Skrzypek , B. F. L. Ward , Z. Was

The optimisation (tuning) of the free parameters of Monte Carlo event generators by comparing their predictions with data is important since the simulations are used to calculate experimental efficiency and acceptance corrections, or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-07 Salvatore La Cagnina , Kevin Kröninger , Stefan Kluth , Andrii Verbytskyi

We present the Monte Carlo generator tuning strategy followed, and the tools developed, by the MCnet CEDAR project. We also present new tuning results for the Pythia 6.4 event generator which are based on event shape and hadronisation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-02 Andy Buckley , Hendrik Hoeth , Heiko Lacker , Holger Schulz , Eike von Seggern

We present a novel Monte-Carlo implementation of the EKRT model, MC-EKRT, for computing partonic initial states in high-energy nuclear collisions. Our new MC-EKRT event generator is based on collinearly factorized, dynamically fluctuating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-26 Mikko Kuha , Jussi Auvinen , Kari J. Eskola , Henry Hirvonen , Yuuka Kanakubo , Harri Niemi

grc4f is a Monte-Carlo package for generating e+e- to 4-fermion processes in the standard model. All of the 76 LEP-2 allowed fermionic final state processes evaluated at tree level are included in version 1.1. grc4f addresses event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Fujimoto , T. Ishikawa , T. Kaneko , K. Kato , S. Kawabata , Y. Kurihara , T. Munehisa , D. Perret-Gallix , Y. Shimizu , H. Tanaka

Three jets events in the e$^+$e$^-$ collisions at 91.2 GeV are investigated using both HERWIG and JETSET Monte Carlo generators. The angles between the three jets are used to identify the quark and gluon jets. The analysis at parton level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu Meiling , Liu Lianshou