%0 Journal 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
%J Computer physics communications
%V 0
%N DESY-14-178
%@ 0010-4655
%C Amsterdam
%I North Holland Publ. Co.
%M PUBDB-2015-01781
%M DESY-14-178
%M arXiv:1410.3012
%P 159-177
%D 2015
%Z OA
%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.
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)29 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 ReportJournal Article
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000353083800017
%R 10.1016/j.cpc.2015.01.024
%U https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/208575