MadEvent: Automatic event generation with MadGraph

Aug, 2002
12 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 02 (2003) 027
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Abstract:
We present a new multi-channel integration method and its implementation in the multi-purpose event generator MadEvent, which is based on MadGraph. Given a process, MadGraph automatically identifies all the relevant subprocesses, generates both the amplitudes and the mappings needed for an efficient integration over the phase space, and passes them to MadEvent. As a result, a process-specific, stand-alone code is produced that allows the user to calculate cross sections and produce unweighted events in a standard output format. Several examples are given for processes that are relevant for physics studies at present and forthcoming colliders.
  • programming
  • Feynman graph: higher-order
  • kinematics: phase space
  • anti-p p: annihilation
  • p p: interaction
  • intermediate boson: hadroproduction
  • intermediate boson: pair production
  • jet: associated production
  • quark: pair production
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