Documentation for MC Generators and related tools

Generator's home pages
alpgen generation of hard multiparton processes in hadronic collisions blackmax a black-hole event generator, which simulates the experimental signature of microscopic and Planckian black-hole production and evolution at the LHC in the context of brane-world models with low-scale quantum gravity. cascade full event generator for ep and pp scattering applying kt-factorisation and unintegrated PDFs charybdis production and decay of black holes in hadron collider experiments charybdis2 new version of the black hole event generator dpmjet event generator for high-energy hadron-hadron, hadron-nucleus, nucleus-nucleus and photon-nucleus collisions hej a High Energy Physics Monte Carlo generator for multi-jet analyses herwig an event generator for Hadron Emission Reactions With Interfering Gluons (including SUSY processes) herwig++ new event generator, written in C++ and built on the experience gained with HERWIG hijing event generator for high energy heavy ion collisions hydjet event generator simulating jet production, jet quenching and flow effects in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions isajet event renerator for pp, pbar p, and e+e- Interactions jimmy a library for multiparton interactions in HERWIG MCatNLO a Fortran package for combining a Monte Carlo event generator with NLO calculations of rates for QCD processes MCFM Monte Carlo for FeMtobarn processes nlojet++ LO and NLO cross section calculation, using the Catani-Seymour dipole subtraction method phojet general purpose event generator based on Dual Parton Model photos package for QED radiative corrections in decays of resonances photos++ C++ Interface to PHOTOS pomwig Herwig for diffractive interactions pyquen event generator for simulation of rescattering, radiative and collisional energy loss of hard partons in expanding quark-gluon plasma created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions pythia6 The Lund Monte Carlo - general purpose HEP event generator (written in Fortran) pythia8 C++ version of pythia6 MC sherpa an event-generation framework for high-energy particle collisions stagen generator for black hole and graviton production starlight Monte Carlo generator for two-photon and photon-Pomeron interactions between relativistic nuclei and protons. tauola generation of tau decays including spin polarization tauola++ C++ Interface to Tauola toprex parton level generator for top quark production vincia a shower plugin to PYTHIA 8. It is based on the dipole-antenna picture of QCD and focusses on describing quark and gluon radiation with high precision. winhac event generator for single W-boson production in hadron collisions

MC related packages and tools
AGILe A Generator Interface Library (& executable) which provide a standard steering interface for Fortran generator codes CLHEP a Class Library for High Energy Physics (No further development is foreseen, except for bug fixes) FastJet a fast and efficient implementation of various jet algorithms JetWeb web-based system for MC event generator validation LHAPDF the Les Houches Accord PDF Interface HepMC a C++ Event Record for Monte Carlo Generators HepPDT particle properties from PDG HepMCAnalysis a tool for generator validation and comparisons HZtool robust model-to-data comparisons MC-tester a universal tool for comparisons of Monte Carlo predictions Professor A tuning tool for Monte Carlo event generators Rivet a toolkit for validation of Monte Carlo event generators (an object oriented C++ replacement for the Fortran HZtool package) ThePEG a toolkit for High Energy Physics Event Generation

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