The Role of Event Generators in the exploration of QCD
DESY Particle and Astroparticle Physics Colloquium
(DESY, Hamburg, 20 February 2024)
Introduction to Event Generators
lectures presented at the Terascale Monte Carlo School 2024
(DESY, Hamburg, 19 - 23 February 2024)
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Worksheet for tutorial
PYTHIA 8 Overview
Presented at the Workshop on the tuning of hadronic interaction
models (Wuppertal, Germany, 22 - 25 January 2024)
The Role of Event Generators (in the exploration of QCD)
presented at 50 years of Quantum Chromodynamics
(UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, 11 - 15 September 2023)
Charm and bottom production
discussion starter at the Holmganga CLASH workshop
(Helsingborg, Sweden, 26 - 30 June 2023)
Intro to Particle Physics and Event Generators
lectures presented at the SMARTHEP School on
Collider Physics and Machine Learning
(Geneva University, Switzerland, 10 - 13 January 2023)
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Forward Charm
presented at a FPF study group meeting,
5 December 2022
Event Generator Physics
lectures and an exercise presented at the
DKPI Summer School 2022
(Neusiedl am See, Austria, 12 - 16 September 2022)
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
preparations for the exercise, before the school
instructions for the exercise, during the school
mainZp.cc skeleton program to run in the exercise
PYTHIA 8 for CORSIKA 8
presented at the CORSIKA 8 Air-Shower Simulation and Development
Workshop, Heidelberg, 12 - 15 July 2022
Hidden Valleys in PYTHIA
presented at the Semivisible Jets Workshop, Zurich,
5 - 7 July 2022
Soft QCD theory
presentation at the Tenth Annual Large Hadron Collider
Physics Conference (LHCP 2022), Taipei, 16 - 20 May 2022
Universums dolda dalar
popular-science presentation for Astronomiska Sällskapet
Tycho Brahe, 29 September 2021
Nonperturbative models in PYTHIA
presented at the workshop on Taming the accuracy of event
generators, 23 - 27 August 2021
The PYTHIA event generator
prize presentation at the EPS-HEP Conference 2021,
26 - 30 July 2021
Past, Present and Future of the PYTHIA Event Generator
physics colloquium at the Department of Physics, University of
Jyväskylä, 16 April 2021
Forward Physics in PYTHIA 8
presented at the Forward Physics Facility Kickoff Meeting,
9 - 10 November 2020
Open Issues in Soft Physics
presented at the virtual Snowmass EF05 Mini-workshop
on Non-Perturbative Uncertainties, 3 - 4 August 2020
Hidden Valleys in PYTHIA
presented at a Dark Matter meeting, Lund,
19 - 20 November 2019
PYTHIA and other MC generators for pp physics
presented at the COST Workshop on Interplay of hard and soft
QCD probes for collectivity in heavy-ion collisions, Lund,
25 February - 1 March 2019
The PYTHIA 8 Event Generator
presented at the LHC meets Cosmic Rays school
(ISAPP 2018), CERN, 28 October - 2 November 2018
Origins of and PYTHIA experience with Colour Reconnection
presented at a satellite meeting on Colour Reconnection,
to PSR18, the Ninth International Workshop on Parton Showers and
Resummation, Lund, 7 June 2018
Collective Effects: the viewpoint of HEP MC codes
presented at Quark Matter 2018, Venice, Italy, 13-19 May 2018
PDFs in an event generator
presented at the CERN theory institute on LHC and the
Standard Model: Physics and Tools, CERN, 16 June 2017
The Lund Model and some extensions
presented at the workshop on Collective effects in
small collisions systems, CERN, 15 June 2017
Status of PYTHIA 8
presentation at the ATLAS-CMS Monte Carlo Generators
Workshop, CERN, 2-5 May 2017
Excellence in grant applications
presentation at MCnet grant writing day, CERN,
22 November 2016
Colour Reconnections from LEP to Future Colliders
presentation at Parton Radiation and Fragmentation from
LHC to FCC-ee workshop, CERN, 21 - 22 November 2016
Introduction to Event Generators
lectures presented at the CTEQ--MCnet School 2016,
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
Lecture 1: 10 July 2016
Lecture 2: 10 July 2016
Lecture 3: 12 July 2016
Lecture 4: 12 July 2016
Status and Developments of Event Generators
presentation at the Fourth Annual Large Hadron Collider
Physics Conference (LHCP 2016), Lund, 13 - 18 June 2016
Soft (& some hard) Physics at 100 TeV
discussion introduction at the MCnet meeting in
Göttingen, 4-6 April 2016
QCD and BSM
seminar at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia,
10 February 2016
The Smallest Dices -- Simplicity and Complexity in the
Particle World
Fredagsfåtöljen ("Friday armchair")
popular science presentation, Faculty of Science, Lund,
6 November 2015
QCD and BSM
presentation at 39th John Hopkins Workshop,
Theory Challenges in the LHC era, Gothenburg,
12 - 14 August 2015
Soft QCD (and PYTHIA)
presentation at ATLAS SM Workshop, Annecy, 4 February 2015
MPI in PYTHIA
presentation at MPI@LHC 2014, Krakow, 3 - 7 November 2014
Status and Future of PYTHIA
presentation at NBI-Lund meeting, Lund, 27 May 2014
Soft Physics at the LHC: Insights and Challenges
seminar in Vienna, 18 March 2014
Colour Reconnection and Its Effects on Precise
Measurements at the LHC
International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics 2013,
Chicago, 15 - 20 September 2013
Monte Carlo Generators and Soft QCD
at the 2013 CERN-Fermilab HCP Summer School,
CERN, 28 August - 6 September 2013
Lecture 1: 2 September
Lecture 2: 2 September
Lecture 3: 3 September
Monte Carlo - lectures and tutorials
at TRISEP 2013 summer school, Vancouver, Canada,
1 - 12 July 2013
Lecture 1: 4 July 2013
Lecture 2: 5 July 2013
PYTHIA 8 Worksheet for tutorials
both lectures are recorded as
video
Challenges for QCD Theory - some personal reflections
Nobel Symposium on LHC Results, Krusenberg, Uppsala,
Sweden, 13 - 17 May 2013
Progress on the PYTHIA 8 event generator
seminar in Mainz, 23 January 2013
PYTHIA 8 and its tuning parameters
MC-LHCb mini workshop, Bucharest, Romania,
22 - 23 November 2012 (EVO presentation)
Inclusion of W/Z emission in showers
TH/LPCC Institute on SM at the LHC, CERN,
1 - 12 October 2012
Introduction to Monte Carlo Techniques
in High Energy Physics
CERN summer student lectures
Lecture 1: 19 July 2012, also as
video
Lecture 2: 20 July 2012, also as
video
Some QCD Aspects of Physics Beyond the Standard Model
APS April Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia,
31 March - 3 April 2012
Status of the LHC and Anatomy of LHC Events
common seminar at the Department of Astronomy and
Theoretical Physics, Lund, 14 March 2012
QCD for BSM in PYTHIA
2011 IPMU-YITP School and Workshop on Monte Carlo Tools
for LHC, Kyoto, Japan, 5 - 10 September 2011
Modelling of minimum bias and underlying events
2011 IPMU-YITP School and Workshop on Monte Carlo Tools
for LHC, Kyoto, Japan, 5 - 10 September 2011
Progress on Event Generation with PYTHIA 8
collider cross talk, CERN, 4 August 2011
Progress on Event Generation with PYTHIA 8
seminar at DESY, 1 March 2011
PYTHIA 8 Status
presented at the Workshop on Hadron-Hadron and
Cosmic-Ray Interactions at multi-TeV Energies,
Trento, Italy, 29 November - 3 December 2010
Some thoughts on the CMS ridge effect
presented at the Discussion on CMS ridge effect,
CERN, 12 October 2010
Introduction to Monte Carlo Event Generators
lectures presented at the CTEQ--MCnet School 2010,
Lauterbad, Germany
Lecture 1: 26 July 2010
Lecture 2: 26 July 2010
Lecture 3: 27 July 2010
Lecture 4: 27 July 2010
Lecture 5: 28 July 2010
PYTHIA 8 Status
presented at the MC4LHC readiness meeting, CERN,
29 March - 1 April 2010
QCD and Event Generators
presented at the CP3 - Origins Inauguration,
SDU, Odense, Denmark, 24 November 2009, also as
video
Lund Phenomenology - Introduction and Overview
presented at Partikeldagarna 2009, Lund,
1 - 2 October 2009
PYTHIA 8.130
presented at the LCG Generator Services monthly
meeting, CERN, 23 September 2009
Monte Carlo Tools
lectures presented at the 65th Scottish Universities
Summer School in Physics: LHC Physics, St Andrews, Scotland
Lecture 1: 17 August 2009
Lecture 2: 18 August 2009
Lecture 3: 19 August 2009
Old Ideas in Hadronization: The Lund String
presented at the workshop on "New Ideas in
Hadronization", IPPP, Durham, United Kingdom, 15 - 17 April 2009
QCD at LHC in pp
presented at 3rd Nordic "LHC and Beyond" Workshop,
Lund, 2 - 3 February 2009
Lund Phenomenology - Introduction and Overview
presented at Partikeldagarna 2008, Stockholm,
16 - 17 October 2008
Event Generators for LHC
lectures presented at the Joint Belgian Dutch German
Graduate School, Texel, The Netherlands
Lectures 1 and 2: 22 September 2008
Lectures 3 and 4: 23 September 2008
Event-Generator Activities
presented at the Astronomy and Theoretical Physics
Gathering, Lund, 19 August 2008
Minimum-Bias and Underlying-Event Physics
presented at the 2008 CTEQ - MCnet Summer School
on QCD Phenomenology and Monte Carlo Event Generators,
Debrecen, Hungary, 8 - 16 August 2008
Introduction to PYTHIA 8
presented at the Nordic Workshop on LHC and Beyond
(jointly with the NORDITA Workshop on TeV Scale Physics
and Dark Matter), Alba Nova, Stockholm, Sweden,
12 - 14 June 2008
PYTHIA 8 Status Report
presented at the HERA and the LHC workshop, CERN,
26 - 30 May 2008
Event Generators for LHC
lectures presented at LNF Sprimg School
"Bruno Touschek", Entering the LHC Era, Frascati, Italy
Lecture 1: 14 May 2008
Lecture 2: 15 May 2008
Minimum-Bias and Underlying-Event Physics in PYTHIA
presented at the Monte Carlo School, DESY,
21 - 24 April 2008, also as
video
PYTHIA 8.1 Introduction and Tutorial
presented at the Monte Carlo School, DESY,
21 - 24 April 2008, also as
video
Event Generators for LHC
lectures presented at Syddansk Universitet, Odense, Denmark
Lecture 1: 27 March 2008
Lecture 2: 28 March 2008
Gösta and The Dipole
presented at the Symposium "Dipoles are Forever",
Lund, 9 January 2008
Event Generators: Trends and Needs
presented at the Strategic Helmholtz Alliance
"Physics at the Terascale" Kick-off Workshop, DESY,
3 - 5 December 2007
PYTHIA 8.1 Introduction and Tutorial
presented at the ATLAS Monte Carlo Generator meeting,
5 November 2007
presented at the LHCb Production and Decay Models
working group meeting, 15 November 2007
presented during the ALICE Physics Working Group week,
11 December 2007
presented a the CMS Generator Tools meeting,
12 December 2007
The PYTHIA 8.1 Release
presented at the Generator Services monthly meeting,
CERN, 24 October 2007
Monte Carlo Provocateur Intro: Programs and Problems
presented at the DESY miniworkshop on
Multiple Interactions and Underlying Events, DESY,
18 - 19 May 2007
PYTHIA - News and Usage
presented at the CMS Monte Carlo tuning miniworkshop,
CERN, 14 May 2007
PYTHIA - News in Recent Years
presented at the ATLAS Higgs Group meeting, CERN,
7 February 2007
PYTHIA 8 Status Report
presented at the MCnet open meeting, CERN,
10 January 2007
''User'' comments on NLO PDF's
presented at the ATLAS discussion meeting on
NLO PDF's, CERN, 14 December 2006
New developments in PYTHIA 8
presented at the Generator Services monthly meeting,
CERN, 22 November 2006
Theory of Hadronic Collisions
lectures presented at the First CERN-Fermilab
Hadron Collider Physics Summer School, Fermilab
Lecture 1: 11 August 2006
Lecture 2: 12 August 2006
Lecture 3: 14 August 2006
Presentations at the MC4LHC-06 workshop, CERN,
17 - 26 July 2006:
Status and Plans for PYTHIA 8
Tuning Priorities for PYTHIA 8
Les Houches Accord - introduction to discussion
Towards a Les Houches Events file format?
Towards a Les Houches Events file format? (updated for
summary)
Monte Carlo Generators
lectures presented at the 2006 European School
of High-Energy Physics, Aronsborg, Sweden
Lecture 1: 26 June 2006
Lecture 2: 27 June 2006
Status and Plans for PYTHIA 8
presented at the CMS CPT week, CERN, 12 May 2006
The User-Autor Interaction: A PYTHIA Case Study
presented at the LCG Generator Services meeting,
CERN, 9 May 2006
Monte Carlo Generators
lectures presented at the UK HEP Young Experimentalists and
Theorists Institute YETI'06, IPPP, Durham, United Kingdom
Lecture 1: 27 March 2006
Lecture 2: 27 March 2006
Lecture 3: 28 March 2006
Lecture 4: 28 March 2006
Lecture 5: 29 March 2006
Monte Carlo Generators
lectures at the International Max Planck
Research School, MPI, Munich, Germany
Lecture 1: 20 February 2006
Lecture 2: 21 February 2006
PYTHIA 8 - The First Release
presented at the Monte Carlo School, Dresden, Germany,
4 - 6 January 2006
PYTHIA 8 - The First Release
presented at the LCG Generator Services meeting,
CERN, 28 July 2005
Status of PYTHIA 8
presented at the Applications Area meeting,
CERN, 1 June 2005
The Les Houches Accord: Should/Could We Update It?
presented on the Workshop on Physics at TeV Colliders,
Les Houches, 2 - 20 May 2005
New PDG Particle Codes, PYTHIA 6.3 Parton Showering, and
PYTHIA 8 Progress Report
presented at the TeV4LHC Workshop,
CERN, 28 - 30 April 2005
PYTHIA: Past, Present and Future
presented at the SFT group meeting, CERN, 15 April 2005
Monte Carlo Generators for the LHC
Academic Training Lectures, presented at CERN
Lecture 1: 4 April 2005, also as
video
Lecture 2: 5 April 2005, also as
video
Lecture 3: 6 April 2005, also as
video
Lecture 4: 7 April 2005, also as
video
New pT-ordered Showers and Interleaved Multiple Interactions
presented at an informal meeting,
DESY, 21 February 2005
New pT-ordered Showers and Interleaved Multiple Interactions
presented at the ATLAS physics plenary meeting,
CERN, 17 February 2005
The PYTHIA Event Generator
presented at the PYTHIA tutorial lectures,
Fermilab, 7 December 2004
The Les Houches Accord
presented by Steve Mrenna at the PYTHIA tutorial lectures,
Fermilab, 7 December 2004
Survey of interesting or useful switches and parameters
presented by Steve Mrenna at the PYTHIA tutorial lectures,
Fermilab, 7 December 2004
Monte Carlos for LHC
presented at CMS generator workshop, CERN, 3 November 2004
New pT-ordered showers and Interleaved Multiple Interactions
presented at the HERA and the LHC workshop,
CERN, 11 - 13 October 2004
New pT-ordered showers
presented at the 9th Nordic LHC Workshop,
Copenhagen, 16 - 17 June 2004
Top mass simulation uncertainties in PYTHIA
phone presentation for the CDF top group, 17 March 2004
New pT-ordered showers
presented at the Collider Physics Workshop, KITP,
Santa Barbara, 12 January - 2 April 2004
Whither PYTHIA?
presented at the Collider Physics Workshop, KITP,
Santa Barbara, 12 January - 2 April 2004
Multiple Interactions - An Introduction
presented at the Workshop on Monte Carlo tools for the LHC,
CERN, 7 July - 1 August 2003
(incomplete, misses many older graphs)
Production and Hadronization of Heavy Quarks
presented at the Workshop on Monte Carlo tools for the LHC,
CERN, 7 July - 1 August 2003
Monte Carlos for TeV Colliders
presented at the Workshop on Physics at TeV Colliders,
Les Houches, 26 May - 6 June 2003
LHC Physics Event Generators
presented at the Nordic LHC Physics Workshop,
Uppsala, 12 November 2002
Monte Carlos and NLO
presented at the H1 Collaboration meeting,
Lund, 3 October 2002
Production and hadronization of heavy quarks
presented at IPPP Workshop on Multiparticle Production
in QCD Jets, Durham, 14 December 2001
PYTHIA Status Report
presented at the ATLAS Physics Workshop,
Lund, 12 - 16 September 2001
PYTHIA Status Report
presented at the Workshop on Physics at TeV Colliders,
Les Houches, 21 May - 1 June 2001
Production and hadronization of heavy quarks
presented at the School on Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics
& Hard Probes Collaboration Meeting, NORDITA, 16 May 2001
PYTHIA Status Report
presented at the Workshop on Monte Carlo Generator Physics
for Run II at the Tevatron, Fermilab, 18 - 20 April 2001
Matching of ME with PS in PYTHIA
presented at the Workshop on Monte Carlo Generator Physics
for Run II at the Tevatron, Fermilab, 18 - 20 April 2001
Event Generator Physics
presented in Heidelberg, 30 January 2001
QCD Radiation off Heavy Particles
presented at the Linear Collider Workshop 2000,
Fermilab, 24 - 28 October 2000
Gamma-Gamma Interactions from Real to Virtual Photons
presented at the Linear Collider Workshop 2000,
Fermilab, 24 - 28 October 2000
PYTHIA Status Report
presented at the Linear Collider Workshop 2000,
Fermilab, 24 - 28 October 2000
Recent QCD Generator Developments
presented at the DELPHI week, Uppsala,
14 - 19 September 2000
Implementation of New Physics in PYTHIA
presented at the Nordic LHC Workshop, Lund,
16 - 18 March 2000
QCD Interconnection Effects
presented at the Workshop on the Development of
Future Linear Electron-Positron Colliders, Lund,
23 - 26 September 1999
QCD Interconnection Effects
presented at the International Workshop on
Linear Colliders, Sitges, 28 April - 5 May 1999
PYTHIA and HERWIG for linear collider physics
presented at the International Workshop on
Linear Colliders, Sitges, 28 April - 5 May 1999
WW Interconnection Effects Well Above Threshold
presented at the ECFA/DESY Linear Collider workshop,
Oxford, 20-23 March 1999
A PYTHIA Update
presented at the ECFA/DESY Linear Collider workshop,
Oxford, 20 - 23 March 1999
Recent Progress in PYTHIA
presented at the QCD and Weak Boson Physics workshop,
Fermilab, 4 - 6 March 1999