Update of the Binoth Les Houches Accord for a standard interface between Monte Carlo tools and one-loop programs

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2013.10.020zbMATH Open1348.82005DBLPjournals/cphysics/AlioliB14OpenAlexW2135489749WikidataQ58084698 ScholiaQ58084698MaRDI QIDQ339801FDOQ339801

Authors J. Bellm, Farès Boudjema, G. Cullen, H. van Deurzen, E. W. N. Glover, P. Nason, T. Robens, F. Siegert, J. F. von Soden-Fraunhofen, P. Skands, V. Yundin, S. Dittmaier, R. Pittau, J. Schlenk, G. Salam, Stefan Weinzierl, S. Alioli, S. Badger, A. Denner, R. Frederix, S. Frixione, M. V. Garzelli, S. Gieseke, N. Greiner, Gudrun Heinrich, V. Hirschi, S. Höche, J. Huston, Harald Ita, N. Kauer, F. Krauss, G. Luisoni, D. Maître, F. Maltoni, C. Oleari, S. Plätzer, S. Pozzorini, L. Reina, C. Reuschle, F. Tackmann, F. Tramontano, P. Uwer, J. Winter, G. Zanderighi, M. Zaro, B. Biedermann, M. Schönherr

Publication date 11 November 2016

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.3462

zbMATH Keywords

automationNLO computationsBinoth Les Houches Accordcollider physicsMonte Carlo programs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-04) Nuclear physics (81V35)

Abstract: We present an update of the Binoth Les Houches Accord (BLHA) to standardise the interface between Monte Carlo programs and codes providing one-loop matrix elements.

Cites work

• A general framework for implementing NLO calculations in shower Monte Carlo programs: the POWHEG BOX
• A proposal for a standard interface between Monte Carlo tools and one-loop programs
• Antenna showers with hadronic initial states
• Automation of one-loop QCD computations
• MadGraph 5: going beyond

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• MadGraph
• GoSam
• POWHEG BOX
• SHERPA
• MadFKS
• Herwig++
• HELAC-1LOOP

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