HERWIG 6: An Event generator for hadron emission reactions with interfering gluons (including supersymmetric processes)

Corcella, G.; Knowles, I.G.; Marchesini, G.; Moretti, S.; Odagiri, K.; Richardson, P.; Seymour, M.H.; Webber, B.R.

doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2001/01/010

HERWIG 6: An Event generator for hadron emission reactions with interfering gluons (including supersymmetric processes)

G. Corcella
(
- Rochester U.
)
,
I.G. Knowles
(
- Edinburgh U.
)
,
G. Marchesini
(
- Milan Bicocca U. and
- INFN, Milan
)
,
S. Moretti
(
- CERN
)
,
K. Odagiri
(
- KEK, Tsukuba
)

Nov, 2000

91 pages

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JHEP 01 (2001) 010

e-Print:

hep-ph/0011363 [hep-ph]

DOI:

10.1088/1126-6708/2001/01/010

Report number:

CAVENDISH-HEP-99-03,
CERN-TH-2000-284,
RAL-TR-2000-048

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Abstract: (arXiv)

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 for initial- and final-state QCD radiation, including colour coherence effects and azimuthal correlations both within and between jets. This article updates the description of HERWIG published in 1992, emphasising the new features incorporated since then. These include, in particular, the matching of first-order matrix elements with parton showers, a more correct treatment of heavy quark decays, and a wide range of new processes, including many predicted by the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, with the option of R-parity violation. At the same time we offer a brief review of the physics underlying HERWIG together with details of the input and control parameters and the output data, to provide a self-contained guide for prospective users of the program. This version of the manual (version 3) is updated to HERWIG version 6.5, which is expected to be the last major release of Fortran HERWIG. Future developments will be implemented in a new C++ event generator, HERWIG++.

Note:

112 pages, updated to version 6.5/ program available at http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/theory/seymour/herwig/ and http://home.cern.ch/seymour/herwig/

hadron hadron: interaction
lepton lepton: interaction
lepton hadron: interaction
hadron: emission
gluon: interference
supersymmetry
quantum chromodynamics
showers: parton
initial-state interaction
final-state interaction

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