The Monte Carlo event generator AcerMC versions 2.0 to 3.8 with interfaces to PYTHIA 6.4, HERWIG 6.5 and ARIADNE 4.1

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 919-985

  Kersevan, Borut Paul ^a,b   Richter Wa̧s, Elzbieta ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Heavy flavour production; Massive matrix elements; Monte Carlo generator; Multi channel phase space generation; SM backgrounds at LHC

Indexed keywords

ARIADNE; EVENT GENERATORS; FINAL STATE; MATRIX ELEMENTS; MONTE CARLO EVENT GENERATORS; MONTE CARLO GENERATOR; MULTI-CHANNEL; PHASE SPACES; STANDARD MODEL;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; PHASE SPACE METHODS;

INTERFACE STATES;

EID: 84872050569     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2012.10.032     Document Type: Article

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