MCnet School 2019 Herwig Tutorial
This is the main page for the Herwig tutorial at the MCnet 2019 school.
This is the tutorial for the MCnet school and teaches you the basics of the Monte Carlo Event Generator Herwig. An installation of Herwig on your own device is not necessary if you use the provided docker image (see next section). If you plan to use Herwig for your own research follow the instructions provided under Installation .
In this tutorial you will learn:
How to simulate LEP events How to simulate LHC events How to include rivet analyses and compare simulation with data How to switch parts of the Event Generator on and off How to modify parameters of the Parton shower and the Hadronization model The Les Houches Event Handler
Before you start (docker containers)
All exercises within this tutorial can be done by using the provided docker image for Herwig.
If you have not already installed docker, please follow the instructions on the docker website and install docker on your device.
The required docker containers can be pulled directly from dockerhub with
docker pull hepstore/rivet-herwig:3.1.1-7.2.1 Linux users: sudo docker ...
In order to run Herwig, execute the following shell command
docker run -i --rm -u `id -u $USER`:`id -g` -v $PWD:$PWD -w $PWD hepstore/rivet-herwig:3.1.1-7.2.1 Herwig
This allows the container to access your local files and to write to the current working directory.
Create an alias for Herwig with
alias Herwig='docker run -i --rm -u `id -u $USER`:`id -g` -v $PWD:$PWD -w $PWD hepstore/rivet-herwig:3.1.1-7.2.1 Herwig'
To run Herwig execute
Herwig
in your terminal.
We recommend creating an alias for the rivet command rivet-mkhtml
alias rivet-mkhtml='docker run -i --rm -u `id -u $USER`:`id -g` -v $PWD:$PWD -w $PWD hepstore/rivet-herwig:3.1.1-7.2.1 rivet-mkhtml'
If this works, you are ready to start the tutorial with First run: LEP. If you encounter problems, please talk to a tutor.
Instructions:
- Installation
- First run: LEP
- Second run: Z production and jets at the LHC
- (Advanced) Third run: minimum bias events and soft physics
- (Advanced) The Les Houches Event Handler
Helpful literature
Herwig manual
- Last Author
- patrickk
- Last Edited
- Jun 22 2021, 2:24 PM