SPICE: simulation package for including flavor in collider events

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2009.09.013MaRDI QIDQ615032zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sumit K. Garg

Publication date 5 January 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1415

zbMATH Keywords

\texttt{SPICE} software toolflavor symmetriessupersymmetric models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-04) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-04)

Abstract: We describe SPICE: Simulation Package for Including Flavor in Collider Events. SPICE takes as input two ingredients: a standard flavor-conserving supersymmetric spectrum and a set of flavor-violating slepton mass parameters, both of which are specified at some high "mediation" scale. SPICE then combines these two ingredients to form a flavor-violating model, determines the resulting low-energy spectrum and branching ratios, and outputs HERWIG and SUSY LesHouches files, which may be used to generate collider events. The flavor-conserving model may be any of the standard supersymmetric models, including minimal supergravity, minimal gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking, and anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking supplemented by a universal scalar mass. The flavor-violating contributions may be specified in a number of ways, from specifying charges of fields under horizontal symmetries to completely specifying all flavor-violating parameters. SPICE is fully documented and publicly available, and is intended to be a user-friendly aid in the study of flavor at the Large Hadron Collider and other future colliders.

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Cites work

• SOFTSUSY: A program for calculating supersymmetric spectra

Cited in

(2)

• SUSY23 v2. 0: An event generator for supersymmetric processes at e^+e^- colliders
• Measuring slepton masses and mixings at the LHC

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• SPICE
• SOFTSUSY
• HERWIG 5.1

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