High-energy-physics event generation with PYTHIA 6.1

Summary, in English

Pythia version 6 represents a merger of the Pythia 5, Jetset 7 and SPythia programs, with many improvements. It can be used to generate high-energy-physics 'events', i.e. sets of outgoing particles produced in the interactions between two incoming particles. The objective is to provide as accurate as possible a representation of event properties in a wide range of reactions. The underlying physics is not understood well enough to give an exact description; the programs therefore contain a combination of analytical results and various models. The emphasis in this article is on new aspects, but a few words of general introduction are included. Further documentation is available on the web.

• Författare: Torbjörn Sjöstrand; Patrik Edén; Christer Friberg; Leif Lönnblad; Gabriela Miu; Stephen Mrenna; Emanuel Norrbin
• Avdelning/ar: Institutionen för astronomi och teoretisk fysik - Genomgår omorganisation
• Publiceringsår: 2001-04-01
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 238-259
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Computer Physics Communications
• Volym: 135
• Issue: 2
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0010-4655(00)00236-8
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Elsevier
• Ämne: Subatomic Physics
• Nyckelord: Event generators; Multiparticle production
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 0010-4655