Monte Carlo tuning and generator validation

Andy Buckley (Durham U.; Berlin); Dept. Theor. Phys.); Eike von Seggern (Humboldt U.; Heiko Lacker (Humboldt U.; Hendrik Hoeth (Lund U.; Holger Schulz (Humboldt U.; Ippp)

arxiv: 0906.0075 · v1 · submitted 2009-05-30 · ✦ hep-ph

Monte Carlo tuning and generator validation

Andy Buckley (Durham U. , Ippp) , Hendrik Hoeth (Lund U. , Dept. Theor. Phys.) , Heiko Lacker (Humboldt U. , Berlin) , Holger Schulz (Humboldt U. , Eike von Seggern (Humboldt U. This is my paper

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keywords eventgeneratortunestuningcarlomontebiascedar

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We present the Monte Carlo generator tuning strategy followed, and the tools developed, by the MCnet CEDAR project. We also present new tuning results for the Pythia 6.4 event generator which are based on event shape and hadronisation observables from e+e- experiments, and on underlying event and minimum bias data from the Tevatron. Our new tunes are compared to existing tunes and to Peter Skands' new "Perugia" tunes.

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