Herwig is a multi-purpose particle physics event generator.
Herwig provides significantly improved and extended physics capabilities when compared to both its predecessors, HERWIG 6 and Herwig++ 2, while keeping the key model motivations such as coherent parton showers (including angular-ordered and dipole-based evolution), the cluster hadronization model, an eikonal multiple-interaction model, highly flexible BSM capabilities and improved perturbative input using next-to-leading order QCD.
This is free and open source software.
Website: herwig.hepforge.org
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Developer: Johannes Bellm, Gavin Bewick, Silvia Ferrario Ravasio, Stefan Gieseke, David Grellscheid, Patrick Kirchgaeßer, Mohammad R. Masouminia, Graeme Nail, Andreas Papaefstathiou, Simon Plätzer, Michael Rauch, Christian Reuschle, Peter Richardson, Michael H. Seymour, Andrzej Siódmok, and Stephen Webster
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Herwig is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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