WHIZARD 2.6
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
  • 2.4  Working With WHIZARD
  • 2.5  Troubleshooting
• Chapter 3  Getting Started
  • 3.1  Hello World
  • 3.2  A Simple Calculation
• 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  Detailed WHIZARD Steering: SINDARIN
  • 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 default method: wood
  • 8.3  A new method: fast_wood
  • 8.4  Phase space respecting restrictions on subdiagrams
• 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  User Code Plug-Ins
  • 12.1  The plug-in mechanism
  • 12.2  Data Types Used for Communication
  • 12.3  User-defined Observables and Functions
  • 12.4  User Code and Static Executables
• Chapter 13  Data Visualization
  • 13.1  GAMELAN
  • 13.2  Histogram Display
  • 13.3  Plot Display
  • 13.4  Graphs
  • 13.5  Drawing options
• 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 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.