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Title: Beyond standard model calculations with Sherpa

Journal Article · · European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields
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  1. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  2. Durham Univ. (United Kingdom)
  3. Gottingen Univ. (Germany)
  4. Dresden Univ. of Technology (Germany)

We present a fully automated framework as part of the Sherpa event generator for the computation of tree-level cross sections in beyond Standard Model scenarios, making use of model information given in the Universal FeynRules Output format. Elementary vertices are implemented into C++ code automatically and provided to the matrix-element generator Comix at runtime. Widths and branching ratios for unstable particles are computed from the same building blocks. The corresponding decays are simulated with spin correlations. Parton showers, QED radiation and hadronization are added by Sherpa, providing a full simulation of arbitrary BSM processes at the hadron level.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1185176
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-16170
Journal Information:
European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields, Vol. 75, Issue 3; ISSN 1434-6044
Publisher:
SpringerCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 38 works
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