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.
- FLS17
- Main reference for helicity-dependent initial-state showers and matrix-element corrections; VINCIA's MHV library.
- N. Fischer, A. Lifson, P. Skands,
arXiv:1708.01736
- FP17
- Main reference for iterated matrix-element corrections for strongly ordered showers; multi-leg merging with VINCIA.
- N. Fischer, S. Prestel
Eur.Phys.J. C77 (2017) no.9, 601
- MS16
- Main reference for evolution with biased kernels
- S. Mrenna, P. Skands Phys.Rev. D94 (2016) no.7, 074005
- FPRS16
- Main reference for VINCIA for hadron colliders.
- N. Fischer, S. Prestel, M. Ritzmann, P. Skands
Eur.Phys.J. C76 (2016) no.11, 589
- Sjo15
- Main reference for PYTHIA 8.2
- T. Sjöstrand et al.,
CPC191(2015)159
- HLS13
- Main reference for NLO corrections
- L. Hartgring, E. Laenen, P. Skands, JHEP 1310 (2013) 127
- LLS13
- Main reference for helicity-dependent showers and helicity-based
GKS matching
- A.J. Larkoski, J.J. Lopez-Villarejo, P. Skands, Phys.Rev. D87 (2013) 054033
- 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 involving
non-relativistic particles)
- 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 shower model
- W. Giele, D. Kosower, P. Skands,
Phys.Rev. D78 (2008) 014026.
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
- MadGraph 4,
JHEP09(2007)028
- HELAS: HELicity amplitude subroutines for Feynman diagram
evaluations, H. Murayama et al.,
KEK-91-11
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,
- Dipole Formulation of QCD Cascades, G. Gustafson and
U. Pettersson, NPB306(1988)746
- Dual Description of a Confined Color Field, G. Gustafson,
PLB175(1986)453
The type of antenna functions used by VINCIA are described in
detail in
- Antenna factorization in strongly ordered limits,
D. Kosower, PRD71(2005)045016
- Antenna Subtraction at NNLO, A. Gehrmann-De Ridder, T. Gehrmann, E.W.N. Glover,
JHEP09(2005)056
- Timelike Showers Based on Dipole-Antenna Radiation Functions,
R. Frederix, W. Giele, D. Kosower, P. Skands, in The NLO multileg
working group: Summary report, arXiv:0803.0494 [hep-ph]
- Infrared Structure of e+e- -> 3 jets at NNLO,
A. Gehrmann-De Ridder, T. Gehrmann, E.W.N. Glover, G. Heinrich,
JHEP11(2007)058
- Matching NLLA + NNLO for
event shape distributions, T. Gehrmann, G. Luisoni, H. Stenzel, PLB664(2008)265
Other References
- CMW91
- S. Catani, G. Marchesini, B.R. Webber,
Nucl.Phys. B349 (1991) 635-654
-
Generic user process interface for event generators, E. Boos et al.,
hep-ph/0109068
-
A Standard format for Les Houches event files, J. Alwall et al.,
CPC176(2007)300