Contents

• Chapter 1  General remarks and History
• Chapter 2  Getting Started
  • 2.1  Evaluating a total cross section
  • 2.2  Generating events
  • 2.3  Analyzing events
  • 2.4  Further options
• Chapter 3  Installation
  • 3.1  Sources
  • 3.2  Prerequisites
    • 3.2.1  Necessary
    • 3.2.2  Optional
    • 3.2.3  Independent components
    • 3.2.4  Alternative matrix element generators
  • 3.3  Configuration
    • 3.3.1  Configure options
    • 3.3.2  Configure environment
    • 3.3.3  Test runs
    • 3.3.4  Cleanup
• Chapter 4  Running WHIZARD
  • 4.1  Setting up the process list
    • 4.1.1  Model selection
    • 4.1.2  Process list
  • 4.2  Compilation, installation, and bundles
  • 4.3  Process selection
  • 4.4  Input data
    • 4.4.1  Files
    • 4.4.2  The process_input block
    • 4.4.3  The integration_input block
    • 4.4.4  The simulation_input block
    • 4.4.5  The diagnostics_input block
    • 4.4.6  The parameter_input block
    • 4.4.7  Input in SUSY Les Houches Accord format
    • 4.4.8  The beam_input blocks
  • 4.5  Cuts
  • 4.6  Integration
    • 4.6.1  Running WHIZARD
    • 4.6.2  The phase space configuration
    • 4.6.3  What if it does not converge?
    • 4.6.4  Output files
  • 4.7  Event generation
    • 4.7.1  Unweighted events
    • 4.7.2  Weighted events
    • 4.7.3  Built-in analysis
  • 4.8  Fragmentation
    • 4.8.1  Parton showers and matching
    • 4.8.2  Mixing WHIZARD and PYTHIA events
    • 4.8.3  PYTHIA event display
  • 4.9  Controlling WHIZARD runs
    • 4.9.1  Grid adaptation
    • 4.9.2  Simulation
    • 4.9.3  Hard limits
• Chapter 5  Advanced usage of WHIZARD
  • 5.1  Feynman diagram selections
  • 5.2  Restrictions on intermediate states
  • 5.3  User-defined spectra and structure functions
  • 5.4  User-defined cuts
  • 5.5  Reweighting matrix elements
  • 5.6  Command-line options
    • 5.6.1  General options
    • 5.6.2  Options for setting parameters
  • 5.7  Tables and file management
  • 5.8  WHIZARD as a subroutine library
  • 5.9  Interface of the WHIZARD module
    • 5.9.1  Auxiliary routines
    • 5.9.2  Standard routines
• Chapter 6  Examples
  • 6.1  Higgs production at LEP
    • 6.1.1  The on-shell process
    • 6.1.2  The four-jet channel
    • 6.1.3  The lepton channels
  • 6.2  6-fermion production: Higgs pairs
  • 6.3  Vector boson scattering: polarization and beamstrahlung
  • 6.4  W endpoint at LHC
  • 6.5  Z′ in Drell-Yan Production at the LHC
  • 6.6  Energy and more general parameter scans