PHANTOM: A Monte Carlo event generator for six parton final states at high energy colliders

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 401-417

  Ballestrero, Alessandro ^a   Belhouari, Aissa ^c   Bevilacqua, Giuseppe ^a,b   Kashkan, Vladimir ^a,b   Maina, Ezio ^a,b  

^a SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electroweak symmetry breaking; Higgs; LHC; Linear collider; Six fermions; Top

Indexed keywords

BOSONS; COLLIDING BEAM ACCELERATORS; CORROSION PREVENTION; ELECTRONS; FERMIONS; GRAPHIC METHODS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRONS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; PROTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; TEST FACILITIES; UNIX;

ELECTROWEAK SYMMETRY BREAKING; HIGGS; LHC; LINEAR COLLIDER; SIX FERMIONS;

FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 60649092893     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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