PYTHIA 6.4 physics and manual

T Sjöstrand, S Mrenna, P Skands - Journal of High Energy …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
The Pythia program can be used to generate high-energy-physicsevents', ie sets of outgoing
particles produced in the interactions between two incoming particles. The objective is to …

Matching matrix elements and shower evolution for top-pair production in hadronic collisions

ML Mangano, M Moretti, F Piccinini… - Journal of High Energy …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the matching of multijet matrix elements and shower evolution in the case of top-
pair production in hadronic collisions at the Tevatron and at the LHC. We present the results …

CMS physics technical design report, volume II: physics performance

CMS collaboration - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
CMS is a general purpose experiment, designed to study the physics of pp collisions at 14
TeV at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It currently involves more than 2000 physicists from …

Automation of next-to-leading order computations in QCD: the FKS subtraction

R Frederix, S Frixione, F Maltoni… - Journal of High Energy …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the complete automation of the universal subtraction formalism proposed by
Frixione, Kunszt, and Signer for the computation of any cross section at the next-to-leading …

A proposal for a standard interface between Monte Carlo tools and one-loop programs

T Binoth, F Boudjema, G Dissertori… - Computer Physics …, 2010 - Elsevier
Many highly developed Monte Carlo tools for the evaluation of cross sections based on tree
matrix elements exist and are used by experimental collaborations in high energy physics …

Pluto: A Monte Carlo simulation tool for hadronic physics

I Fröhlich, LC Boado, T Galatyuk, V Hejny… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2007 - arxiv.org
Pluto is a Monte-Carlo event generator designed for hadronic interactions from Pion
production threshold to intermediate energies of a few GeV per nucleon, as well as for …

Standard Model backgrounds to supersymmetry searches

ML Mangano - The European Physical Journal C, 2009 - Springer
This work presents a review of the standard model sources of backgrounds to the search of
supersymmetry signals. Depending on the specific model, typical signals may include jets …

A positive-weight next-to-leading-order Monte Carlo for Z pair hadroproduction

P Nason, G Ridolfi - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a first application of a previously published method for the computation of QCD
processes that is accurate at next-to-leading order, and that can be interfaced consistently to …

Test event generation for a fall-detection IoT system

L Gutiérrez-Madroñal, L La Blunda… - IEEE Internet of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a popular paradigm which has been applied to different areas,
such as smart cities, medicine, or business processes. One of the main drawbacks of an IoT …

Multi-parton cross sections at hadron colliders

CG Papadopoulos, M Worek - The European Physical Journal C, 2007 - Springer
We present an alternative method to calculate cross sections for multi-parton scattering
processes in the standard model at leading order. The helicity amplitudes are computed …