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From Lagrangians to Events: Computer Tutorial at the MC4BSM-2012 Workshop

@article{Ask2012FromLT,
  title={From Lagrangians to Events: Computer Tutorial at the MC4BSM-2012 Workshop},
  author={Stefan Ask and Neil D. Christensen and Claude Duhr and Christophe Grojean and Stefan Hoeche and Konstantin T. Matchev and Olivier Mattelaer and Stephen Mrenna and Andreas Papaefstathiou and Myeonghun Park and Maxim Perelstein and Peter Skands},
  journal={arXiv: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology},
  year={2012}
}

• S. Ask, N. Christensen, +9 authors P. Skands
• Published 3 September 2012
• Physics, Computer Science
• arXiv: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

This is a written account of the computer tutorial oered at the Sixth MC4BSM workshop at Cornell University, March 22-24, 2012. The tools covered during the tutorial include: FeynRules, LanHEP, MadGraph, CalcHEP, Pythia 8, Herwig++, and Sherpa. In the tutorial, we specify a simple extension of the Standard Model, at the level of a Lagrangian. The software tools are then used to automatically generate a set of Feynman rules, compute the invariant matrix element for a sample process, and generate both parton-level and fully hadronized/showered Monte Carlo event samples. The tutorial is designed to be self-paced, and detailed instructions for all steps are included in this write-up. Installation instructions for each tool on a variety of popular platforms are also provided.