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+-            High Energy Jets            -
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+
+High Energy Jets (HEJ) is a Monte Carlo generator for all-order summation of
+high-energy logarithms. It can be used as both a C++ library and standalone
+executable.
+
+For further informations and questions please visit
+
+    http://hej.web.cern.ch/
+
+The latest version can be downloaded from
+
+    https://phab.hepforge.org/source/hej/repository/v2.0/
+
+-------------  Installation  -------------
+
+HEJ can be installed via CMake version 3.1 or later (https://cmake.org/) by
+running
+
+  mkdir build
+  cd build
+  cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=target/directory
+  make install
+
+Replace "target/directory" with the directory where HEJ should be installed to.
+
+HEJ depends on multiple external packages, a full list is given in the user
+documentation (i.e. http://hej.web.cern.ch/). The minimal requirements are:
+
+    A compiler supporting the C++14 standard (e.g. gcc 5 or later)
+    CLHEP (https://gitlab.cern.ch/CLHEP/CLHEP)
+    FastJet (http://fastjet.fr/)
+    IOStreams and uBLAS for the boost library (https://boost.org/)
+    LHAPDF (https://lhapdf.hepforge.org/)
+    yaml-cpp (https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp)
+
+We also provide a Fixed Order Generator for the HEJ matrix elements as a
+separate executable. To install it run the same commands as above in the
+"FixedOrderGen" directory.
+
+-------------  Documentation -------------
+
+All documentation is hosted on
+
+    http://hej.web.cern.ch/
+
+To generate the user documentation locally run
+(requires sphinx http://sphinx-doc.org/)
+
+    cd doc/sphinx
+    make html
+    firefox _build/html/index.html
+
+The code documentation can be build through doxygen (http://doxygen.org/);
+
+    cd doc/doxygen
+    doxygen Doxyfile
+    firefox html/index.html