CalcHEP 3.4 for collider physics within and beyond the Standard Model

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 184, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1729-1769

  Belyaev, Alexander ^a,b   Christensen, Neil D ^c   Pukhov, Alexander ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Automatic code generation; CalcHEP; Event generator; Feynman diagrams; Feynman squared amplitudes; High energy physics; Matrix element generator

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CODE GENERATIONS; CALCHEP; EVENT GENERATORS; FEYNMAN DIAGRAMS; FEYNMAN SQUARED AMPLITUDES; MATRIX ELEMENTS;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; INTERFACE STATES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MODEL CHECKING; MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; UNIX;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84875823548     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2013.01.014     Document Type: Article

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