TY - JOUR AU - Sjöstrand, Torbjörn AU - Ask, Stefan AU - Christiansen, Jesper R. AU - Corke, Richard AU - Desai, Nishita AU - Ilten, Philip AU - Mrenna, Stephen AU - Prestel, Stefan AU - Rasmussen, Christine O. AU - Skands, Peter Z. TI - An Introduction to PYTHIA 8.2 JO - Computer physics communications VL - 0 IS - DESY-14-178 SN - 0010-4655 CY - Amsterdam PB - North Holland Publ. Co. M1 - PUBDB-2015-01781 M1 - DESY-14-178 M1 - arXiv:1410.3012 SP - 159-177 PY - 2015 N1 - OA AB - 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. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)29 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000353083800017 DO - DOI:10.1016/j.cpc.2015.01.024 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/208575 ER -