CalcHEP 3.4 for collider physics within and beyond the Standard Model

2012/07/31 by A. Belyaev, Alexander Belyaev, Neil D. Christensen +2 · 32 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Collider #Computation #Computational science #Computer science #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #Event (particle physics) #Feynman diagram #Graphical user interface #Interface (matter) #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Parton #Phase space #Phenomenology (philosophy) #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Programming language #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #hep-ex #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2013.01.014

82 pages, elsarticle LaTeX, 7 Figures. Changes from v1: 1) updated reference list and Acknowledgments; 2) 2->1 processes added to CalcHEP; 3) particles decay (i.e. Higgs boson) into virtual W/Z decays added together with comparison to results from Hdecay package; 4) added interface with Root package

arxiv created 2012/10/23 · openalex publication_date 2013/01/29 · arxiv updated 2015/06/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We present version 3.4 of the CalcHEP software package which is designed for effective evaluation and simulation of high energy physics collider processes at parton level. The main features of CalcHEP are the computation of Feynman diagrams, integration over multi-particle phase space and event simulation at parton level. The principle attractive key-points along these lines are that it has: a) an easy startup even for those who are not familiar with CalcHEP; b) a friendly and convenient graphical user interface; c) the option for a user to easily modify a model or introduce a new model by either using the graphical interface or by using an external package with the possibility of cross checking the results in different gauges; d) a batch interface which allows to perform very complicated and tedious calculations connecting production and decay modes for processes with many particles in the final state. With this features set, CalcHEP can efficiently perform calculations with a high level of automation from a theory in the form of a Lagrangian down to phenomenology in the form of cross sections, parton level event simulation and various kinematical distributions. In this paper we report on the new features of CalcHEP 3.4 which improves the power of our package to be an effective tool for the study of modern collider phenomenology.

Citations

• Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model within CompHEP software package
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• Multiple Higgs and vector boson production beyond the Standard Model
• Speeding up MadGraph5_aMC@NLO
• Photon cascade decay of the warped graviton at LHC14 and a 100 TeV hadron collider
• MadDM v.1.0: Computation of dark matter relic abundance using MadGraph 5
• Invisible decays of low mass Higgs bosons in supersymmetric models
• HEPMath 1.4: A mathematica package for semi-automatic computations in high energy physics
• MultipleZ′→tt¯signals in a 4D composite Higgs model
• Extended colored Zee-Babu model
• Confronting dark matter with the diphoton excess from a parent resonance decay
• Prospects for three-body Higgs boson decays into extra light scalars
• Implications of the Little Higgs Dark Matter and T-odd fermions
• Halo-independent tests of dark matter direct detection signals: local DM density, LHC, and thermal freeze-out
• Enhanced lines and box-shaped features in the gamma-ray spectrum from annihilating dark matter in the NMSSM
• Probing the Higgs Couplings to Photons inh→4ℓat the LHC
• Generation of a radiative neutrino mass in the linear seesaw framework, charged lepton flavor violation, and dark matter
• Search for massive resonances decaying into pairs of boosted bosons in semi-leptonic final states at s √(s) = 8 TeV
• Two-step strongly first-order electroweak phase transition modified FIMP dark matter, gravitational wave signals, and the neutrino mass
• LHC physics of extra gauge bosons in the 4D Composite Higgs Model
• Testing Higgs boson scenarios in the phenomenological NMSSM
• New signals for vector-like down-type quark in U(1) of E₆
• Leptophobic Z′ bosons in the secluded UMSSM
• Revisiting neutrino self-interaction constraints from Z and τ decays
• Left-right symmetry and lepton number violation at the Large Hadron electron Collider
• Polarized NLO EW e+e− cross section calculations with ReneSANCe-v1.0.0
• Reappraisal of dark matter co-annihilating with a top or bottom partner
• A feeble window on leptophilic dark matter
• Scalar multiplet dark matter in a fast expanding Universe: Resurrection of the desert region
• Cornering pseudoscalar-mediated dark matter with the LHC and cosmology
• Predictive neutrino mass textures with origin of flavor symmetries
• Low-mass right-handed sneutrino dark matter: SuperCDMS and LUX constraints and the Galactic Centre gamma-ray excess
• Model-independent analysis of the DAMPE excess
• Statistical analyses of Higgs- and Z-portal dark matter models

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• CalcHEP 2.3: MSSM, structure functions, event generation, batchs, and generation of matrix elements for other packages
• Project "CalcPHEP: Calculus for Precision High Energy Physics"
• CompHEP - Specialized package for automatic calculations of elementary particle decays and collisions
• Physical results by means of CompHEP
• Event simulation for colliders - A basic overview