Rivet user manual

By Andy Buckley, J. Butterworth, David Grellscheid, H. Hoeth, L. Lonnblad, J. Monk, Holger Schulz, F. Siegert. Computer Physics Communications, 2010

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This is the manual and user guide for the Rivet system for the validation and tuning of Monte Carlo event generators. As well as the core Rivet library, this manual describes the usage of the rivet program and the AGILe generator interface library. The depth and level of description is chosen for users of the system, starting with the basics of using validation code written by others, and then covering sufficient details to write new Rivet analyses and calculational components. Program summary Program title: Rivet Catalogue identifier: AEPS_v1_0 Program summary URL: http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/AEPS_v1_0.html Program obtainable from: CPC Program Library, Queen's University, Belfast, N. Ireland Licensing provisions: Standard CPC licence, http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/licence/licence.html No. of lines in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 571126 No. of bytes in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 4717522 Distribution format: tar.gz Programming language: C++, Python. Computer: PC running Linux, Mac. Operating system: Linux, Mac OS. RAM: 20 MB Classification: 11.9, 11.2. External routines: HepMC (https://savannah.cern.ch/projects/hepmc/), GSL (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/gsl-ref.html), FastJet (http://fastjet.fr/), Python (http://www.python.org/), Swig (http://www.swig.org/), Boost (http://www.boostsoftware.com/), YAML (http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html) Nature of problem: Experimental measurements from high-energy particle colliders should be defined and stored in a general framework such that it is simple to compare theory predictions to them. Rivet is such a framework, and contains at the same time a large collection of existing measurements. Solution method: Rivet is based on HepMC events, a standardised output format provided by many theory simulation tools. Events are processed by Rivet to generate histograms for the requested list of analyses, incorporating all experimental phase space cuts and histogram definitions. Restrictions: Cannot calculate statistical errors for correlated events as they appear in NLO calculations. Unusual features: It is possible for the user to implement and use their own custom analysis as a module without having to modify the main Rivet code/installation. Running time: Depends on the number and complexity of analyses being applied, but typically a few hundred events per second. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. (Less)

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Systematics of quark/gluon tagging (2017, methodology): “A Rivet routine [51] for this analysis can be downloaded from https: //github.com/gsoyez/lh2015-qg under MC_LHQG_EE.cc.”
NLO QCD+EW predictions for V + jets including off-shell vector-boson decays and multijet merging (2015, methodology): “The presented analysis has been implemented in Rivet [114].”
Event generator tunes obtained from underlying event and multiparton scattering measurements (2015, neutral): “3) frameworks [18, 19], we construct: (i) new PYTHIA8 (version 8.”
The Angantyr model for heavy-ion collisions in Pythia8 (2018, methodology): “e choice of centrality measure, trigger selection, primary particle deﬁnition etc. all play a major role. In the present paper all comparisons of Angantyr to data are carried out using the Rivet tool [58], which has proved highly successful for this task in pp. This has, however, been done using our”
Boosted objects and jet substructure at the LHC. Report of BOOST2012, held at IFIC Valencia, 23rd–27th of July 2012 (2013, methodology): “ all comparisons. For each generator, tune and process 1 million protonproton events at p s= 7 TeV are produced. The analysis relies on the FastJet 3.0.3 package [66, 67] and Rivet analysis framework [68]. All analysis routines are available on the conference web page [69]. In the boosted semilepton”
Herwig 7.0/Herwig++ 3.0 release note (2015, methodology): “12.01178v1 [hep-ph] 3 Dec 2015 2 Johannes Bellm et al.: Herwig 7.0 / Herwig++ 3.0 Release Note are necessary in order to fully exploit the program’s capabilities. Amongst these are HepMC and/or Rivet [15] to analyze simulated events, as well as some or all of the external amplitude libraries discuss”
A perturbative framework for jet quenching (2012, methodology): “ctions in the deconned phase there are no scatterings when the local temperature has dropped below T c. 4 Results The analysis of Monte Carlo events and all plots shown here were produced with Rivet [68] and the corresponding analysis codes contained within. For jets, typically the anti-k ? algorith”
Robust Independent Validation of Experiment and Theory: Rivet version 3 (2019, methodology): “This document is intended to supplement and supersede the first Rivet user manual [1], as well as providing an overview of Rivet usage to date and a summary of recently added features in Rivet versions up to and including version 3.”