Page MenuHomeHEPForge
Create Task
Maniphest T97

Prepare a script that would convert decay databases between different major generators
Open, Needs TriagePublic
Actions

Description

Generators in focus:
EvtGen
Sherpa
Herwig/ThePEG
Pythia8
Pythia6
Whizard

+ would be nice to be able to grab the decay tables from PDG at least in a semi-automated way.

Event Timeline

averbyts created this task.Apr 28 2020, 4:10 PM
Herald added a subscriber: tlatham. · View Herald TranscriptApr 28 2020, 4:10 PM
tlatham changed the visibility from "All Users" to "Public (No Login Required)".Jul 27 2020, 10:08 AM
tlatham changed the edit policy from "All Users" to "Restricted Project (Project)".
kreps added a subscriber: kreps.Jun 8 2021, 2:55 PM

There is no way of grabbing decay tables from PDG at this moment. PDG data are not defined well enough to be able to simply read them in an automated way and in places looking up details in the original papers is needed to understand the exact meaning. Also, measurements can be conflicting and such cases need to be resolved by hand anyhow. There were attempts before and they failed and introduced mistakes that were not immediately obvious.