A Proposal for a Standard Interface between Monte Carlo Tools and One-Loop Programs
Jan, 2010
25 pages
Part of Physics at TeV colliders. Proceedings, 6th Workshop, dedicated to Thomas Binoth, Les Houches, France, June 8-26, 2009, 1-19
Published in:
- Comput.Phys.Commun. 181 (2010) 1612-1622
Contribution to:
- , 1-19
- PhysTeV 2009
e-Print:
- 1001.1307 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- SLAC-PUB-14723,
- FERMILAB-PUB-10-029-T,
- LAPTH-003-10
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Abstract: (arXiv)
Many highly developed Monte Carlo tools for the evaluation of cross sections based on tree matrix elements exist and are used by experimental collaborations in high energy physics. As the evaluation of one-loop matrix elements has recently been undergoing enormous progress, the combination of one-loop matrix elements with existing Monte Carlo tools is on the horizon. This would lead to phenomenological predictions at the next-to-leading order level. This note summarises the discussion of the next-to-leading order multi-leg (NLM) working group on this issue which has been taking place during the workshop on Physics at TeV colliders at Les Houches, France, in June 2009. The result is a proposal for a standard interface between Monte Carlo tools and one-loop matrix element programs.Note:
- Dedicated to the memory of, and in tribute to, Thomas Binoth, who led the effort to develop this proposal for Les Houches 2009. Minor changes
- Monte Carlo tools
- One-loop computations
- Les Houches Accord
- higher-order: 1
- numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
- electroweak interaction: correction
- cross section
- programming
- tree approximation
- quantum chromodynamics
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