General-purpose event generators for LHC physics

A Buckley, J Butterworth, S Gieseke, D Grellscheid… - Physics Reports, 2011 - Elsevier
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 …

Event generator tunes obtained from underlying event and multiparton scattering measurements

V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
New sets of parameters (“tunes”) for the underlying-event (UE) modelling of the pythia 8,
pythia6 and herwig++ Monte Carlo event generators are constructed using different parton …

Herwig 7.0/Herwig++ 3.0 release note

J Bellm, S Gieseke, D Grellscheid, S Plätzer… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
A major new release of the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig++ (version 3.0) is now
available. This release marks the end of distinguishing Herwig++ and HERWIG …

Tuning PYTHIA 8.1: the Monash 2013 tune

P Skands, S Carrazza, J Rojo - The European Physical Journal C, 2014 - Springer
We present an updated set of parameters for the PYTHIA 8 event generator. We reevaluate
the constraints imposed by LEP and SLD on hadronization, in particular with regard to heavy …

EPOS LHC: Test of collective hadronization with data measured at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

T Pierog, I Karpenko, JM Katzy, E Yatsenko, K Werner - Physical Review C, 2015 - APS
Epos is a Monte Carlo event generator for minimum bias hadronic interactions, used for both
heavy ion interactions and cosmic ray air shower simulations. Since the last public release …

[HTML][HTML] Performance of the ATLAS trigger system in 2015

M Aaboud, G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah… - The European Physical …, 2017 - Springer
During 2015 the ATLAS experiment recorded\(3.8\,{\mathrm {fb}}^{-1}\) of proton–proton
collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of\(13\,{\mathrm {TeV}}\). The ATLAS trigger system …

The hadronic final state at HERA

PR Newman, M Wing - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2014 - APS
The hadronic final state in electron-proton collisions at HERA has provided a rich testing
ground for development of the theory of the strong force, QCD. In this review, over 200 …

Standard Model physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC

P Azzi, S Farry, P Nason, A Tricoli… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
The successful operation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the excellent performance
of the ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE detectors in Run-1 and Run-2 with $ pp $ collisions at …

Colour reconnections in Herwig++

S Gieseke, C Röhr, A Siódmok - The European Physical Journal C, 2012 - Springer
We describe the implementation details of the colour reconnection model in the event
generator Herwig++. We study the impact on final-state observables in detail and confirm the …

Charged-particle multiplicities in pp interactions measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Atlas Collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.5104, 2010 - arxiv.org
Measurements are presented from proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of
sqrt (s)= 0.9, 2.36 and 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events were …