We review the physics basis, main features and use of general-purpose Monte Carlo event
generators for the simulation of proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider …

A hot, dense medium called a quark gluon plasma (QGP) is created in ultrarelativistic heavy
ion collisions. Early in the collision, hard parton scatterings generate high momentum …

High energy collisions at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produce a large
number of particles along the beam collision axis, outside of the acceptance of existing LHC …

Sherpa is a general-purpose Monte Carlo event generator for the simulation of particle
collisions in high-energy collider experiments. We summarize essential features and …

New sets of CMS underlying-event parameters (“tunes”) are presented for the pythia 8 event
generator. These tunes use the NNPDF3. 1 parton distribution functions (PDFs) at leading …

This manual describes the Pythia event generator, the most recent version of an evolving
physics tool used to answer fundamental questions in particle physics. The program is most …

Abstract Particles beyond the Standard Model (SM) can generically have lifetimes that are
long compared to SM particles at the weak scale. When produced at experiments such as …

We present a new set of parton distributions, NNPDF3. 1, which updates NNPDF3. 0, the first
global set of PDFs determined using a methodology validated by a closure test. The update …

First released in 2010, the Rivet library forms an important repository for analysis code,
facilitating comparisons between measurements of the final state in particle collisions and …

This Report summarizes the results of the activities of the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working
Group in the period 2014–2016. The main goal of the working group was to present the state …