Herwig 7.0/Herwig++ 3.0 release note

European Physical Journal C

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Bellm, Johannes ^a,b   Gieseke, Stefan ^a   Grellscheid, David ^b   Plätzer, Simon ^b,c   Rauch, Michael ^a   Reuschle, Christian ^a,d   Richardson, Peter ^b,e   Schichtel, Peter ^b   Seymour, Michael H ^c   Siódmok, Andrzej ^e,f   Wilcock, Alexandra ^b   Fischer, Nadine ^a   Harrendorf, Marco A ^a   Nail, Graeme ^c   Papaefstathiou, Andreas ^e   Rauch, Daniel ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CERN   (Switzerland)

^f INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

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EID: 84963876705     PISSN: 14346044     EISSN: 14346052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4018-8     Document Type: Article

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