WHIZARD 3.1
A generic
Monte-Carlo integration and event generation package
for multi-particle processes
MANUAL ¹

• Contents
• Chapter ‍1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Disclaimer
  • 1.2 Overview
  • 1.3 Historical remarks
  • 1.4 About examples in this manual
• Chapter ‍2 Installation
  • 2.1 Package Structure
  • 2.2 Prerequisites
  • 2.3 Installation
• Chapter ‍3 Working with WHIZARD
  • 3.1 Hello World
  • 3.2 A Simple Calculation
  • 3.3 WHIZARD in a Computing Environment
  • 3.4 Troubleshooting
• Chapter ‍4 Steering WHIZARD: SINDARIN Overview
  • 4.1 The command language for WHIZARD
  • 4.2 SINDARIN scripts
  • 4.3 Errors
  • 4.4 Statements
  • 4.5 Control Structures
  • 4.6 Expressions
  • 4.7 Variables
• Chapter ‍5 SINDARIN in Details
  • 5.1 Data and expressions
  • 5.2 Particles and (sub)events
  • 5.3 Physics Models
  • 5.4 Processes
  • 5.5 Beams
  • 5.6 Polarization
  • 5.7 Cross sections
  • 5.8 Events
  • 5.9 Analysis and Visualization
  • 5.10 Custom Input/Output
  • 5.11 WHIZARD at next-to-leading order
• Chapter ‍6 Random number generators
  • 6.1 General remarks
  • 6.2 The TAO Random Number Generator
  • 6.3 The RNGStream Generator
• Chapter ‍7 Integration Methods
  • 7.1 The Monte-Carlo integration routine: VAMP
  • 7.2 The next generation integrator: VAMP2
• Chapter ‍8 Phase space parameterizations
  • 8.1 General remarks
  • 8.2 The flat method: rambo
  • 8.3 The default method: wood
  • 8.4 A new method: fast_wood
  • 8.5 Phase space respecting restrictions on subdiagrams
  • 8.6 Phase space for processes forbidden at tree level
• Chapter ‍9 Methods for Hard Interactions
  • 9.1 Internal test matrix elements
  • 9.2 Template matrix elements
  • 9.3 The O’Mega matrix elements
  • 9.4 Interface to GoSam
  • 9.5 Interface to Openloops
  • 9.6 Interface to Recola
  • 9.7 Special applications
• Chapter ‍10 Implemented physics
  • 10.1 The hard interaction models
  • 10.2 The SUSY Les Houches Accord (SLHA) interface
  • 10.3 Lepton Collider Beam Spectra
  • 10.4 Transverse momentum for ISR photons
  • 10.5 Transverse momentum for the EPA approximation
  • 10.6 Resonances and continuum
  • 10.7 Parton showers and Hadronization
• Chapter ‍11 More on Event Generation
  • 11.1 Event generation
  • 11.2 Unweighted and weighted events
  • 11.3 Choice on event normalizations
  • 11.4 Event selection
  • 11.5 Supported event formats
  • 11.6 Interfaces to Parton Showers, Matching and Hadronization
  • 11.7 Rescanning and recalculating events
  • 11.8 Negative weight events
• Chapter ‍12 Internal Data Visualization
  • 12.1 GAMELAN
  • 12.2 Histogram Display
  • 12.3 Plot Display
  • 12.4 Graphs
  • 12.5 Drawing options
• Chapter ‍13 Fast Detector Simulation and External Analysis
  • 13.1 Interfacing ROOT
  • 13.2 Interfacing RIVET
  • 13.3 Fast Detector Simulation with DELPHES
• Chapter ‍14 User Interfaces for WHIZARD
  • 14.1 Command Line and SINDARIN Input Files
  • 14.2 WHISH – The WHIZARD Shell/Interactive mode
  • 14.3 Graphical user interface
  • 14.4 WHIZARD as a library
• Chapter ‍15 Examples
  • 15.1 Z lineshape at LEP I
  • 15.2 W pairs at LEP II
  • 15.3 Higgs search at LEP II
  • 15.4 Deep Inelastic Scattering at HERA
  • 15.5 W endpoint at LHC
  • 15.6 SUSY Cascades at LHC
  • 15.7 Polarized WW at ILC
• Chapter ‍16 Technical details – Advanced Spells
  • 16.1 Efficiency and tuning
• Chapter ‍17 New External Physics Models
  • 17.1 New physics models via SARAH
  • 17.2 New physics models via FeynRules
  • 17.3 New physics models via the UFO file format
• Appendix ‍A SINDARIN Reference
  • A.1 Commands and Operators
  • A.2 Variables
  • Acknowledgements
• References

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This work is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Association) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy-EXC 2121 “Quantum Universe”-39083330 and under grant 396021762 - TRR 257. In the past it was supported by Helmholtz-Alliance “Physics at the Terascale”. In former stages this work has also been supported by the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft VH–NG–005
E-mail: whizard@desy.de

This document was translated from L^AT_EX by H^EV^EA.