2008

Herwig++ Physics and Manual

Bahr, M., Gieseke, S., Gigg, M. A. et al.

Understand

In this paper we describe Herwig++ version 2.3, a general-purpose Monte Carlo event generator for the simulation of hard lepton-lepton, lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron collisions.

A number of important hard scattering processes are available, together with an interface via the Les Houches Accord to specialized matrix element generators for additional processes.
The simulation of Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics includes a range of models and allows new models to be added by encoding the Feynman rules of the model.
The parton-shower approach is used to simulate initial- and final-state QCD radiation, including colour coherence effects, with special emphasis on the correct description of radiation from heavy particles.

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