SUSY Les Houches accord: interfacing SUSY spectrum calculators, decay packages, and event generators

By Peter Z. Skands, Benjamin C. Allanach, H. Baer, C. Balázs, G. B'elanger, Fawzi Boudjema, Abdelhak Djouadi, R. Godbole, J. Guasch, Sven Heinemeyer and 13 more. 2003

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An accord specifying a unique set of conventions for supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model together with generic file structures for 1) supersymmetric model specifications and input parameters, 2) electroweak scale supersymmetric mass and coupling spectra, and 3) decay tables is presented, to provide a universal interface between spectrum calculation programs, decay packages, and high energy physics event generators.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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