Sixth MC4BSM Workshop, Cornell March 22-24, 2012

Tutorial exercises

Here you can find the documentation for the different tutorial exercises to be covered during MC4BSM-6. After the workshop, the combined documentation from all exercises will be published proceedings-style on the arXiv.

• Description of the strawman theory model (Maxim Perelstein) [mp325 AT cornell.edu]
• Feynrules (Claude Duhr) [duhrc AT itp.phys.ethz.ch]
• Installation instructions and pre-workshop exercises
• Instructions for the on-site exercise
• Tarball containing the FeynRules model file and a sample notebook for the exercise
• Solutions and model files for the matrix element generators:
• CalcHEP model files.
• Sherpa model files
• UFO files
• References:
• FeynRules manual.
• Documentation for the FeynRules superspace module.
• Documentation for the Whizard interface.
• Documentation for the UFO format.
• LanHEP (Myeonghun Park) [myeonghun.park AT cern.ch]
• Installation instructions and pre-workshop exercises
• Instructions for the on-site exercise
• References:
  1. LanHEP manual
  2. Introduction by Alexander Belyaev
• CalcHEP (Neil Christensen) [neilc AT pitt.edu]
• Installation and event generation instructions
• Final result from the on-site exercise
• References
• CalcHEP website
• Manual
• Madgraph (Olivier Mattelaer) [olivier.mattelaer AT uclouvain.be]
• Installation instructions and pre-workshop exercises
• Instructions for the on-site exercise
• Final result from the on-site exercise
• Direct links to the events produced by MG: unweighted events; events with decay
• References:
  1. Questions/Answer
  2. MG5 Paper
  3. MG5 Presentation/Tutorial (January 2012)
• HERWIG++(Andreas Papaefstathiou) [andreasp AT physik.uzh.ch]
• Installation instructions and pre-workshop exercises
• Instructions for the on-site exercise
• Final result from the on-site exercise
• (found in the exercise tarball)
  
• References:
  
• PDF (LaTeX) version of Tutorial
• Wiki Pages
  
• Version 2.5 Release Notes
• Physics & Manual
• MCnet review
  
• PYTHIA8 (Stefan Ask) [stefan.ask AT cern.ch]
• Installation instructions and pre-school exercises
• Instructions for the on-site exercise
• Final result from the on-site exercise
  1. None, no following step.
• References:
  1. Online as well as physics manuals
  2. MCnet review
• SHERPA (Stefan Hoeche) [shoeche AT slac.stanford.edu]
• Tutorial web page, mirror location
• Installation instructions and pre-workshop exercises
• Instructions for the on-site exercise

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