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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

HERWIG is a general-purpose Monte Carlo event generator, which includes the simulation of hard lepton-lepton, lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron scattering and soft hadron-hadron collisions in one package. It uses the parton-shower approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-15 G. Corcella , I. G. Knowles , G. Marchesini , S. Moretti , K. Odagiri , P. Richardson , M. H. Seymour , B. R. Webber

A new release of the Monte Carlo program HERWIG (version 6.4) is now available. The main new features are: spin correlations between the production and decay of heavy fermions, i.e. top quarks, tau leptons and SUSY particles; polarization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Corcella , I. G. Knowles , G. Marchesini , S. Moretti , K. Odagiri , P. Richardson , M. H. Seymour , B. R. Webber

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…

We describe the recent development of the Herwig++ event generator.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-06-21 Martyn Gigg , Peter Richardson

We describe a Monte Carlo event generator for the simulation of QCD-instanton induced processes in deep-inelastic scattering (HERA). The QCDINS package is designed as an ``add-on'' hard process generator interfaced to the general hadronic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Ringwald , F. Schrempp

We describe the program HERWIRI2.1, which implements order alpha-squared photonic radiative corrections exponentiated at the amplitude level (initial state, final state, and initial-final interference) and electroweak corrections to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-19 Scott Yost , B. F. L. Ward

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 thesis describes the development of two independent computer programs, Herwig++ and Effective. Both of these programs are used for phenomenological predictions of high energy physics. Herwig++ is used to simulate events as measured at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip Stephens

This is the user's manual of MC@NLO 2.0. 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

This is the user's manual of MC@NLO 2.2. 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 Stefano Frixione , Bryan R. Webber

This note documents the use of the POWHEG-hvq package, a generator for heavy flavour hadroproduction at next-to-leading order in QCD, that can be easily interfaced to shower Monte Carlo programs, in such a way that NLO and shower accuracy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-07-23 Stefano Frixione , Paolo Nason , Giovanni Ridolfi

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

The AcerMC Monte Carlo generator gives a possibility to generate some of the Standard Model background processes which were recognised as very dangerous for the searches at LHC, and generation of which was either unavailable or not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Borut Paul Kersevan , Elzbieta Richter-Was

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

We present Monte Carlo data showing the comparison between the parton shower generated by the standard DGLAP-CS kernels and that generated with the new IR-improved DGLAP-CS kernels recently developed by one of us(BFLW). We do this in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-02 S. Joseph , S. Majhi , B. F. L. Ward , S. A. Yost

We introduce a new model for soft interactions in the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig. We add a new model for the simulation of diffractive final states, based on the cluster hadronization model in Herwig. The soft component of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-03 S. Gieseke , P. Kirchgaeßer , F. Loshaj

This is the user's manual of MC@NLO 4.0. This package is a practical implementation, based upon the Fortran HERWIG and Herwig++ event generators, of the MC@NLO formalism, which allows one to incorporate NLO QCD matrix elements consistently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-06 Stefano Frixione , Fabian Stoeckli , Paolo Torrielli , Bryan R. Webber , Chris D. White

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