Published May 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Introducing an interface between FeynRules and WHIZARD

  • 1. University of Pittsburgh, PITTsburgh Particle physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
  • 2. University of Durham, Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham (United Kingdom)
  • 3. Universite de Strasbourg/CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien/Departement Recherches Subatomiques, Strasbourg (France)
  • 4. University of Edinburgh, School of Physics and Astronomy, Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
  • 5. Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Physikalisches Institut, Freiburg (Germany)
  • 6. DESY Theory Group, Hamburg (Germany)

Description

While Monte Carlo event generators like Whizard have become indispensable tools in studying the impact of new physics on collider observables over the last decades, the implementation of new models in such packages has remained a rather awkward and error-prone process. Recently, the FeynRules package was introduced which greatly simplifies this process by providing a single unified model format from which model implementations for many different Monte Carlo codes can be derived automatically. In this note, we present an interface which extends FeynRules to provide this functionality also for the Whizard package, thus making Whizard's strengths and performance easily available to model builders. (orig.)

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1990-5

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C
Journal Volume
72
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 1-15
ISSN
1434-6044