%0 Electronic Article
%A Sjöstrand, Torbjörn
%A Ask, Stefan
%A Christiansen, Jesper R.
%A Corke, Richard
%A Desai, Nishita
%A Ilten, Philip
%A Mrenna, Stephen
%A Prestel, Stefan
%A Rasmussen, Christine O.
%A Skands, Peter Z.
%T An Introduction to PYTHIA 8.2
%N DESY-14-178
%M PUBDB-2014-03946
%M DESY-14-178
%M LU TP 14-36
%M MCNET-14-22
%M CERN-PH-TH-2014-190
%M FERMILAB-PUB-14-316-CD
%M SLAC-PUB-16122
%D 2014
%X The PYTHIA program is a standard tool for the generation of events in high-energy collisions, comprising a coherent set of physics models for the evolution from a few-body hard process to a complex multiparticle final state. It contains a library of hard processes, models for initial- and final-state parton showers, matching and merging methods between hard processes and parton showers, multiparton interactions, beam remnants, string fragmentation and particle decays. It also has a set of utilities and several interfaces to external programs. PYTHIA 8.2 is the second main release after the complete rewrite from Fortran to C++, and now has reached such a maturity that it offers a complete replacement for most applications, notably for LHC physics studies. The many new features should allow an improved description of data.
%K PYTHIA (INSPIRE)
%K programming (INSPIRE)
%K numerical calculations: Monte Carlo (INSPIRE)
%K parton: showers (INSPIRE)
%K parton: final state (INSPIRE)
%K parton: multiple production (INSPIRE)
%K parton: hadronization (INSPIRE)
%K string: fragmentation (INSPIRE)
%K p p: scattering (INSPIRE)
%K cross section (INSPIRE)
%K new physics (INSPIRE)
%K quantum chromodynamics (INSPIRE)
%K CERN LHC Coll (INSPIRE)
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)25 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)29
%9 PreprintReport
%U https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/191756