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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