Related papers: PYTHIA and HERWIG for Linear Collider Physics
Event generators play a crucial role in the exploration of LHC physics. This presentation summarizes news and plans for the three general-purpose pp generators HERWIG, PYTHIA and SHERPA, as well as briefer notes on a few other generators.…
I review all the new features of the HERWIG event generator which are relevant to Linear Collider (LC) physics starting from version 6.1
The evolution of the widely-used PYTHIA particle physics event generator is outlined, from the early days to the current status and plans. The key decisions and the development of the major physics components are put in context.
PYTHIA is a general-purpose event generator for multiparticle production in high-energy physics. After a general introduction and program news survey, some areas of recent physics progress are considered: the matching to matrix elements,…
Recent improvements in the PYTHIA event generator are summarized: new hard subprocesses, gamma*-gamma* physics, QCD final-state showers, and more.
We review the current status of the WHIZARD event generator. We discuss, in particular, recent improvements and features that are relevant for simulating the physics program at a future Linear Collider.
PYTHIA version 6 represents a merger of the PYTHIA 5, JETSET 7 and SPYTHIA programs, with many improvements. It can be used to generate high-energy-physics `events', i.e. sets of outgoing particles produced in the interactions between two…
The status of event generators for SUSY processes at future Linear Colliders is briefly reviewed.
The HERWIG event generator was widely used throughout the workshop, particularly in the emulation of Supersymmetric and Higgs processes in the context of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We briefly review here its main features in…
I discuss the state of the art and outline direction for research in event generation for electroweak physics at LEP2 and e+e- Linear Colliders.
We discuss recent improvement in the treatment of gluon radiation in top production and decay in e+e- processes according to the HERWIG event generator and show studies on the top mass reconstruction at the future Linear Collider.
We review the physics basis, main features and use of general-purpose Monte Carlo event generators for the simulation of proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Topics included are: the generation of hard-scattering matrix…
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…
We have modified the HERWIG event generator to incorporate diffractive interactions. All standard HERWIG hard subprocesses are available.
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)
This manual describes the PYTHIA 8.3 event generator, the most recent version of an evolving physics tool used to answer fundamental questions in particle physics. The program is most often used to generate high-energy-physics collision…
I review the array of event generators which have been written to provide simulations of high-energy e+e- reactions. (Session summary talk presented at the 1999 International Workshop on Linear Colliders, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain.)
The PYTHIA program can be used to generate high-energy-physics `events', i.e. sets of outgoing particles produced in the interactions between two incoming particles. The objective is to provide as accurate as possible a representation of…
The PYTHIA program can be used to generate high-energy-physics `events', i.e. sets of outgoing particles produced in the interactions between two incoming particles. The objective is to provide as accurate as possible a representation of…
The present status of four-fermion calculations and event generators for LEP2 physics is reviewed. Perspectives for future improvements are given.