Useful References

Note: a log of update notes and installation instructions is kept in the README.TXT accompanying the distribution.

Note 2: for authors, the VINCIA Authors' Compendium contains a collection of useful formulae and derivations.

VINCIA

LLS13
Main reference for helicity-dependent showers and helicity-based GKS matching
A.J. Larkoski, J.J. Lopez-Villarejo, P. Skands, arXiv:1301.0933
LVS11
Main reference for sector showers and sector-based GKS matching
J.J. Lopez-Villarejo, P. Skands, JHEP 1111 (2011) 150
GRS11
Main reference for mass corrections (showers off heavy quarks)
A. Gehrmann-de Ridder, M. Ritzmann, P. Skands, Phys.Rev. D85 (2012) 014013
GKS11
Main reference for multiplicative (unitary) GKS matching, uncertainty bands, and runtime displays
W. Giele, D. Kosower, P. Skands, Phys.Rev. D84 (2011) 054003
GKS07
Main reference for the VINCIA antenna showers
W. Giele, D. Kosower, P. Skands, Phys.Rev. D78 (2008) 014026.
SMS07
Main reference for PYTHIA 8
T. Sjöstrand, S. Mrenna, P. Skands, CPC178(2008)852

General Introductions to QCD and MC Generators

PZS12
Introduction to QCD (TASI 2012 summer school lectures, with emphasis on MC generators)
P. Skands, arXiv:1207.2389
MCN11
MCnet Review on General-Purpose Event Generators for LHC physics
MCnet Collaboration, arXiv:1101.2599

MADGRAPH

The interface to MADGRAPH (v4) relies on

Dipole-Antennae

The basic use of dipole-antennae as a dual description of QCD in the context of Shower Monte Carlos goes back to the Lund dipole, The type of antenna functions used by VINCIA are described in detail in

Other References

CMW91
S. Catani, G. Marchesini, B.R. Webber, Nucl.Phys. B349 (1991) 635-654