Useful References
VINCIA
A log of update notes and installation instructions is kept in
the README.TXT accompanying the
distribution.
The main VINCIA references are:
- Showers:
A simple shower and matching algorithm, W. Giele, D. Kosower,
P. Skands, PRD78(2008)014026
- Matching:
Higher-order corrections to timelike jets, W. Giele, D. Kosower,
P. Skands, arXiv:1102.2126
PYTHIA 8
The main PYTHIA 8 reference is
- A Brief Introduction to PYTHIA 8.1, T. Sjöstrand,
S. Mrenna and P. Skands,
CPC178(2008)852
MADGRAPH
The interface to MADGRAPH (v4) further relies on
- MadGraph 4,
JHEP09(2007)028
- HELAS: HELicity amplitude subroutines for Feynman diagram
evaluations, H. Murayama et al.,
KEK-91-11
Event Generators
To learn more about the physics of Event Generators, see
- General-purpose event generators for LHC physics, MCnet
Collaboration, arXiv:1101.2599
- QCD for Collider Physics, P. Skands (ESHEP 2010 summer
school lectures), arXiv:1104.2863
- PYTHIA 6.4 Physics and Manual., T. Sjöstrand,
S. Mrenna and P. Skands,
JHEP05(2006)026
To learn more about Les Houches color tags, used both by PYTHIA
and VINCIA to keep track of color connections, see
-
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
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