An introduction to PYTHIA 8.2
Oct 11, 2014
19 pages
Published in:
- Comput.Phys.Commun. 191 (2015) 159-177
- Published: Feb 11, 2015
e-Print:
- 1410.3012 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- LU-TP-14-36,
- MCNET-14-22,
- CERN-PH-TH-2014-190,
- FERMILAB-PUB-14-316-CD,
- DESY-14-178,
- SLAC-PUB-16122
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The Pythia program is a standard tool for the generation of events in high-energy collisions, comprising a coherent set of physics models for the evolution from a few-body hard process to a complex multiparticle final state. It contains a library of hard processes, models for initial- and final-state parton showers, matching and merging methods between hard processes and parton showers, multiparton interactions, beam remnants, string fragmentation and particle decays. It also has a set of utilities and several interfaces to external programs. Pythia 8.2 is the second main release after the complete rewrite from Fortran to C++, and now has reached such a maturity that it offers a complete replacement for most applications, notably for LHC physics studies. The many new features should allow an improved description of data.Note:
- 45 pages
- Event generators
- Multiparticle production
- Matrix elements
- Parton showers
- Matching and merging
- Multiparton interactions
- Hadronisation
- manual
- PYTHIA
- programming
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