Tools for event generator tuning and validation
Abstract
Description
I describe the current status of MCnet tools for validating the performance of event generator simulations against data, and for tuning their phenomenological free parameters. For validation, the Rivet toolkit is now a mature and complete system, with a large library of prominent benchmark analyses. For tuning, the Professor system has recently completed its first tunes of Pythia 6, with substantial improvements on the existing default tune and potential to greatly aid the setup of new generators for LHC studies.
8 pages, Prepared in alternative format for Proceedings of HERA-LHC Workshop, May 2008
8 pages, Prepared in alternative format for Proceedings of HERA-LHC Workshop, May 2008