MadAnalysis 5, A User-Friendly Framework for Collider Phenomenology

Jun, 2012
118 pages
Published in:
  • Comput.Phys.Commun. 184 (2013) 222-256
e-Print:
Report number:
  • IPHC-PHENO-06

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We present MadAnalysis  5, a new framework for phenomenological investigations at particle colliders. Based on a C ++ kernel, this program allows us to efficiently perform, in a straightforward and user-friendly fashion, sophisticated physics analyses of event files such as those generated by a large class of Monte Carlo event generators. MadAnalysis  5 comes with two modes of running. The first one, easier to handle, uses the strengths of a powerful Python  interface in order to implement physics analyses by means of a set of intuitive commands. The second one requires one to implement the analyses in the C ++ programming language, directly within the core of the analysis framework. This opens unlimited possibilities concerning the level of complexity which can be reached, being only limited by the programming skills and the originality of the user.
Note:
  • 118 pages/ 5 figures/ 25 tables/ version accepted by CPC
  • Particle physics phenomenology
  • Monte Carlo event generators
  • hadron colliders
  • Hadron colliders
  • Monte Carlo
  • programming
  • interface
  • hadron: colliding beams
  • parton
  • CERN LHC Coll