A Standard format for Les Houches event files

Journal Article · Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2006 · Comput.Phys.Commun.176:300-304,2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2006.11.010· OSTI ID:899068

Alwall, J; Ballestrero, A; Bartalini, P; Belov, S; Boos, E; Buckley, A; Butterworth, J M; Dudko, L; Frixione, S; Garren, L; Gieseke, S; Gusev, A; Hinchliffe, I; Huston, J; Kersevan, B; Krauss, F; Lavesson, N; Lonnblad, L; Maina, E; Maltoni, F ; Mangano, M L

A standard file format is proposed to store process and event information, primarily output from parton-level event generators for further use by general-purpose ones. The information content is identical with what was already defined by the Les Houches Accord five years ago, but then in terms of Fortran commonblocks. This information is embedded in a minimal XML-style structure, for clarity and to simplify parsing.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 899068
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-PUB-06-337-T; arXiv eprint number hep-ph/0609017; TRN: US0701732
• Journal Information: Comput.Phys.Commun.176:300-304,2007, Conference: Written within the framework of the MC4LHC-06 workshop: Monte Carlos for the LHC: A Workshop on the Tools for LHC Event Simulation (MC4LHC), Geneva, Switzerland, 17-16 Jul 2006
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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