WHIZARD 1.97
A generic
Monte-Carlo integration and event generation package
for multi-particle processes
MANUAL ¹

• Contents
• General remarks and History
• Getting Started
  • Evaluating a total cross section
  • Generating events
  • Analyzing events
  • Further options
• Installation
  • Sources
  • Prerequisites
  • Configuration
• Running WHIZARD
  • Setting up the process list
  • Compilation, installation, and bundles
  • Process selection
  • Input data
  • Cuts
  • Integration
  • Event generation
  • Fragmentation
  • Controlling WHIZARD runs
• Advanced usage of WHIZARD
  • Feynman diagram selections
  • Restrictions on intermediate states
  • User-defined spectra and structure functions
  • User-defined cuts
  • Reweighting matrix elements
  • Command-line options
  • Tables and file management
  • WHIZARD as a subroutine library
  • Interface of the WHIZARD module
• Examples
  • Higgs production at LEP
  • 6-fermion production: Higgs pairs
  • Vector boson scattering: polarization and beamstrahlung
  • W endpoint at LHC
  • Z′ in Drell-Yan Production at the LHC
  • Energy and more general parameter scans
• Acknowledgements
• References

1

Work supported by the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, the BMBF etc.

2

e-mail: wolfgang.kilian@desy.de

3

e-mail: ohl@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de

4

e-mail: juergen.reuter@desy.de

5

e-mail: christian.speckner@physik.uni-freiburg.de

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