Monte Carlo HowTo's

Older (Useful, But Possibly Obsolete) HowTo's

• Running Monte Carlo, with tips on making it work (last modified for 4.5.0- Matt)


• Peter's Page on How To Make Many Processes and Links to Local DataSets (Peter)
• Basic steps for generating with Pythia, Running Production, and Ntupling (Nancy)
• How to run Herwig 6.2 (Kara)
• How to run production executable with filtering in 4.3.0 (Natalia)

Links and MC DataSets

• Links to Local DataSets (Peter)
• Link to the Chicago Datasets Page (including MC)
• Link to the Fermilab Run II Monte Carlo Page
• Link to the PDG Particle Numbering Scheme
• Link to Sebastian's Page on Converting COMPHEP output to HEPG
• Link to Chadd's page on MadGraph and Comphep Les Houches formats
• Link to Soushi's page on Converting Les Houches Accord (Generator Level) output to HEPG
• Link to a list of links to most MC generators (DESY)
• Link to the MadGraph Home Page
• Link to CompHep home page

COMPHEP

• Link to CompHep home page
• How to run COMPHEP 41.10 (Henry and Lev)
• Zgamma and Wgamma results from CompHEP (Chadd)
• Running Comphep files through Pythia to HEPG and through the farms (Collin)
• Making PAW ntuples from MadGraph and Comphep Les Houches formats (Chadd)

MadGraph

• Link to the MadGraph Home Page and Web Generator
• Generating events with Madgraph and running them through Pythia (Collin)
• Making PAW ntuples from MadGraph and Comphep Les Houches formats (Chadd)
• How To use MadGraph, Pythia, Simulation and 4.9.1 Production to make a UCntuple for a New Process at UC (UnKi and Henry)
• Force leptonic tau decays
• Running Simulation/production/ntupler on MadGraph files.

Other Generators

• How to run Whizard (Bruce)

Standalone Generation through Production- General

• Conversion of files to HEPG (Bruce and Sebastian)
• Generating events with Madgraph and running them through Pythia (Collin)
• Converting STDHEP to HEPG (Sebastian)
• Making PAW ntuples from MadGraph and Comphep Les Houches formats (Chadd)
• Going from STDHEP through Simulation and 4.9.0 Production (UnKi and Henry)
• Making generation/simulation/productin at once(Un-ki)

Standalone Generation through Production- Farms

• Running Comphep files through Pythia to HEPG and through the farms (Collin)
• Adding HEPG files to the database (Collin)
• Creating a tarball for running simulation on HEPG files on the farms (Collin).
• How to make a generator HEPG file (*.gen) from a *.PEV file (CompHep LesHouches output) (Andrei Loginov)
• How to make a generator HEPG file (*.gen) from a *.dat MadGraph file with helicity information (Stephen Levy)
• PEV 2 HEPG for electrons/muons/taus: info (Andrei Loginov)

Splitting MadGraph files, running through HEPG, and then through Sim/Prod (Steve, Jacob,Henry)

• Read Instructions Here

How To Find MC We've Made in the Data File Catalog etc.

• How to find HEPG or other MC datasets in the Data File Catalog (DFC) (Henry Frisch)

How To Use the Patriot MC DB at Fermilab on the STKEN Enstore Silo

• Using the Patrio MCDB (Steve Mrenna and Lev Dudko are the experts) (Henry Frisch)
• Instructions for moving our datasets from UC to the Patriot MCDB (Henry Frisch)

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