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PYTHIA 8 Index

Brief Introduction (pdf)

Program Overview

Frontpage
Program Flow
Settings Scheme
Particle Data Scheme
Program Files
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
  --   Extra Dimensions
A Second Hard Process
Phase Space Cuts
Couplings and Scales
Standard-Model Parameters
Total Cross Sections
Resonance Decays
Timelike Showers
Spacelike Showers
Multiple Interactions
Beam Remnants
Fragmentation
Flavour Selection
Particle Decays
Bose-Einstein Effects
Particle Data
Error Checks
Tunes

Study Output

Four-Vectors
Particle Properties
Event Record
Event Information
Event Statistics
Histograms
Event Analysis
HepMC Interface

Link to Other Programs

Les Houches Accord
Access PYTHIA 6 Processes
Semi-Internal Processes
Semi-Internal Resonances
Hadron-Level Standalone
SUSY Les Houches Accord
Beam Shape
Parton Distributions
External Decays
User Hooks
Random Numbers
Implement New Showers

Reference Materiel

PYTHIA 6 Translation Table
Update History
Bibliography
Glossary
Version