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Program Overview

Frontpage
Program Flow
Settings Scheme
Particle Data Scheme
Program Files
Program Classes
Program Methods
Sample Main Programs

Setup Run Tasks

Save Settings
Main-Program Settings
Beam Parameters
Random-Number Seed
PDF Selection
Master Switches
Process Selection
  --   QCD
  --   Electroweak
  --   Onia
  --   Top
  --   Fourth Generation
  --   Higgs
  --   SUSY
  --   New Gauge Bosons
  --   Left-Right Symmetry
  --   Leptoquark
  --   Compositeness
  --   Hidden Valleys
  --   Extra Dimensions
  --   Dark Matter
A Second Hard Process
Phase Space Cuts
Couplings and Scales
Standard-Model Parameters
Total Cross Sections
Resonance Decays
Timelike Showers
Spacelike Showers
Automated Shower Variations
Weak Showers
Multiparton Interactions
Beam Remnants
Colour Reconnection
Diffraction
Fragmentation
Flavour Selection
Particle Decays
R-hadrons
Bose-Einstein Effects
Photoproduction
Hadron Scattering
Particle Data
Error Checks
Tunes

Study Output

Four-Vectors
Particle Properties
Event Record
Event Information
Event Statistics
Event Analysis
Histograms
Advanced Usage

Link to Other Programs

Les Houches Accord
SUSY Les Houches Accord
HepMC Interface
ProMC Files
Semi-Internal Processes
Semi-Internal Resonances
MadGraph5 Processes
HelacOnia Processes
Alpgen Event Interface
Matching and Merging
  --   POWHEG Merging
  --   aMC@NLO Matching
  --   CKKW-L Merging
  --   Jet Matching
  --   UMEPS Merging
  --   NLO Merging
User Hooks
Hadron-Level Standalone
External Decays
Beam Shape
Parton Distributions
Jet Finders
Random Numbers
Implement New Showers
RIVET usage
ROOT usage
A Python Interface

Reference Materiel

Update History
Bibliography
Glossary
Version

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