Contributor info: Dr Frank Siegert

Christian Bierlich, Andy Buckley, Jonathan Butterworth, Christian Holm Christensen, Louie Corpe, David Grellscheid, Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus, Christian Gutschow, Przemyslaw Karczmarczyk, Jochen Klein, Leif Lonnblad, Christopher Samuel Pollard, Peter Richardson, Holger Schulz, Frank Siegert

SciPost Phys. 8, 026 (2020) · published 11 February 2020 | Toggle abstract · pdf

First released in 2010, the Rivet library forms an important repository for analysis code, facilitating comparisons between measurements of the final state in particle collisions and theoretical calculations of those final states. We give an overview of Rivet's current design and implementation, its uptake for analysis preservation and physics results, and summarise recent developments including propagation of MC systematic-uncertainty weights, heavy-ion and $ep$ physics, and systems for detector emulation. In addition, we provide a short user guide that supplements and updates the Rivet user manual.

Enrico Bothmann, Gurpreet Singh Chahal, Stefan Höche, Johannes Krause, Frank Krauss, Silvan Kuttimalai, Sebastian Liebschner, Davide Napoletano, Marek Schönherr, Holger Schulz, Steffen Schumann, Frank Siegert

SciPost Phys. 7, 034 (2019) · published 18 September 2019 | Toggle abstract · pdf

Sherpa is a general-purpose Monte Carlo event generator for the simulation of particle collisions in high-energy collider experiments. We summarize essential features and improvements of the Sherpa 2.2 release series, which is heavily used for event generation in the analysis and interpretation of LHC Run 1 and Run 2 data. We highlight a decade of developments towards ever higher precision in the simulation of particle-collision events.