HERWIG 6: an event generator for hadron emission reactions with interfering gluons (including supersymmetric processes)

2000/11/30 by G. Corcella, Gennaro Corcella, I.G. Knowles +13 · 2,036 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Electron #Event generator #Gluon #Hadron #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Lepton #Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model #Monte Carlo method #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Parton #Parton shower #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quark–gluon plasma #Supersymmetry #hep-ex #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2001/01/010

published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2001(01), 010 (Springer Nature) · 112 pages, updated to version 6.5; program available at http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/theory/seymour/herwig/ and http://home.cern.ch/seymour/herwig/

openalex publication_date 2001/01/09 · arxiv created 2002/10/22 · arxiv updated 2011/06/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

HERWIG is a general-purpose Monte Carlo event generator, which includes the simulation of hard lepton-lepton, lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron scattering and soft hadron-hadron collisions in one package. It uses the parton-shower approach for initial- and final-state QCD radiation, including colour coherence effects and azimuthal correlations both within and between jets. This article updates the description of HERWIG published in 1992, emphasising the new features incorporated since then. These include, in particular, the matching of first-order matrix elements with parton showers, a more correct treatment of heavy quark decays, and a wide range of new processes, including many predicted by the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, with the option of R-parity violation. At the same time we offer a brief review of the physics underlying HERWIG together with details of the input and control parameters and the output data, to provide a self-contained guide for prospective users of the program. This version of the manual (version 3) is updated to HERWIG version 6.5, which is expected to be the last major release of Fortran HERWIG. Future developments will be implemented in a new C++ event generator, HERWIG++.

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