Theory and phenomenology of two-Higgs-doublet models

GC Branco, PM Ferreira, L Lavoura, MN Rebelo… - Physics reports, 2012 - Elsevier
We discuss theoretical and phenomenological aspects of two-Higgs-doublet extensions of
the Standard Model. In general, these extensions have scalar mediated flavour changing …

The waning of the WIMP? A review of models, searches, and constraints

G Arcadi, M Dutra, P Ghosh, M Lindner… - The European Physical …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are among the best-motivated dark
matter candidates. No conclusive signal, despite an extensive search program that …

Identification of heavy-flavour jets with the CMS detector in pp collisions at 13 TeV

CMS collaboration - Journal of Instrumentation, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The success of the physics programme of the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC requires
the particles created in the LHC collisions to be reconstructed and identified as accurately as …

The ATLAS simulation infrastructure

ATLAS Collaboration atlas. secretariat@ cern. ch… - The European Physical …, 2010 - Springer
The simulation software for the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is being
used for large-scale production of events on the LHC Computing Grid. This simulation …

A general framework for implementing NLO calculations in shower Monte Carlo programs: the POWHEG BOX

S Alioli, P Nason, C Oleari, E Re - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010 - Springer
In this work we illustrate the POWHEG BOX, a general computer code framework for
implementing NLO calculations in shower Monte Carlo programs according to the POWHEG …

Parton distributions for the LHC

AD Martin, WJ Stirling, RS Thorne, G Watt - The European Physical …, 2009 - Springer
We present updated leading-order, next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order
parton distribution functions (“MSTW 2008”) determined from global analysis of hard …

Five-year wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe* observations: cosmological interpretation

E Komatsu, J Dunkley, MR Nolta… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 5-year data provide
stringent limits on deviations from the minimal, six-parameter Λ cold dark matter model. We …

A brief introduction to PYTHIA 8.1

T Sjöstrand, S Mrenna, P Skands - Computer Physics Communications, 2008 - Elsevier
The Pythia program is a standard tool for the generation of high-energy collisions,
comprising a coherent set of physics models for the evolution from a few-body hard process …

Tuning Monte Carlo generators: the perugia tunes

PZ Skands - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2010 - APS
We present 9 new tunes of the p⊥-ordered shower and underlying-event model in Pythia
6.4. These “Perugia” tunes update and supersede the older “S0” family. The data sets used …

Herwig++ physics and manual

M Bahr, S Gieseke, MA Gigg, D Grellscheid… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2008 - arxiv.org
In this paper we describe Herwig++ version 2.3, a general-purpose Monte Carlo event
generator for the simulation of hard lepton-lepton, lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron …