Monte Carlo Tools

MC generators

ThePEG

• ThePEG web page (or page on HepForge)
• Toolkit for High Energy Physics Event Generation.

Installation

• Depends on GSL - GNU Scientific Library
• Installing GSL straight forward (./configure --prefix=$HOME/local;make;make install)
• Installing ThePEG as well (./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --with-gsl=$HOME/local;make;make install)

Herwig++

• Herwig++ web page (and manual)

Installation

• Version 2.2.1: ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --with-gsl=$HOME/local/ --with-thepeg=$HOME/local --with-pdf=$HOME/local --with-clhep=$HOME/local --with-hepmc=$HOME/local; make; make install.
• It is not necessary to use the configure flag --with-root=/path/to/root for Root based analysis.

Running

• First is needed to create rpo file: Herwig++ init -i /usr/local/share/Herwig++/defaults/HerwigDefaults.in.
• Then creation of run file is needed: Herwig++ read LHC.in.
• Then run the file: Herwig++ run LHC.run -N 100.

Input files

Analysis

• For creation analysis plot has to be compiled with --with-hepmc option,

  insert LHCGenerator:AnalysisHandlers 0 /Herwig/Analysis/Plot
  insert LHCGenerator:AnalysisHandlers 0 /Herwig/Analysis/HepMCFile

• User analysis:

  cd /Herwig/Analysis
  create MyAnalysis::First first analysis/First.so
  insert /Herwig/Generators/LHCGenerator:AnalysisHandlers 0 first
  cd /Herwig/Generators

Pythia 8

• Pythia web page
• installation: download, ./configure;make

Sherpa

• Sherpa web page

Links to other Monte Carlos

• Beam halo generátor

MC Tools

PDFs

LHAPDF

• LHAPDF web page
• Les Houches Accord PDF Interface - interface to modern PDF sets.
• install: ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local;make;make install

Event records

HepMC

• HepMC web page
• Object oriented event record written in C++ for High Energy Physics Monte Carlo Generators
• install: ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/ --with-momentum=MEV --with-length=MM;make;make install

HepEvt

• Old event record format used e.g. in fortran Herwig.

HEP libraries

CLHEP

• CLHEP web page
• Pet of HEP-specific foundation and utility classes such as random generators, physics vectors, geometry and linear algebra.
• install: ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local;make;make install

MC validation

Rivet

• Rivet web page
• A toolkit for validation of Monte Carlo event generators (descedant of HZTool written in C++)
• Installation: run bootstrap script
• If not on machine with mounted /afs/cern.ch, the Genser mirror has to be installed - script for install is probably in Agile trunk (agile-genser-bootstrap).

AGILe

• AGILe web page
• AGILe is A Generator Interface Library, i.e. a uniform object oriented C++ interface for a variety of Monte Carlo event generators, written in a variety of languages.

HZTool

• HZTool web page
• HZTool is a library of routines which will allow you to reproduce an experimental result using the four-vector final state from Monte Carlo generators.

Jet agorithms

SISCone

• SISCone web page
• Seedless Infrared Safe Cone jet algorithm

KtJet

• KtJet web page
• C++ implementation of the K⊥ jet algorithm
• install: requires CLHEP, ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local;make;make install

KTCLUS

• KTCLUS web page
• Original fortran implementation of Kt jet algoritm by Mike Seymour

-- OldrichKepka - 16 Jul 2008
-- VojtechJuranek - 12 Aug 2008