Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-11-03
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
30 pages including figures
Scientific paper
The first version of PHOTOS Monte Carlo for bremsstrahlung in the decay of particles and resonances with an interface to the HepMC event record written in C++ is now available. The main purpose of the present paper is to document technical aspects of the PHOTOS Monte Carlo installation and its use. A multitude of test results and examples are distributed together with the program code. The PHOTOS C++ physics precision is now as good as that of its FORTRAN predecessor. Howeverbetter steering options are available. An algorithm of the event record interface is prepared for the installation of process dependent variants of the photon emission kernel. Weights, featuring complete first order matrix elements, can be installed for general use. In the FORTRAN version of PHOTOS they were available only for decays of particles at rest and with spin set along the z axis. Physics assumptions used in the program and properties of the solution it offers are reviewed. In particular, it is mentioned that the second order matrix elements were used in design and validation of the program iteration procedure. Also it is explained that the phase space parameterization used in the program is exact.
Davidson Nir
Przedzinski Tomasz
was Zbigniew
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