Sherpa is a Monte Carlo event generator for the Simulation of High-Energy Reactions of PArticles in lepton-lepton, lepton-photon, photon-photon, lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron collisions.
Simulation programs – also dubbed event generators – like Sherpa are indispensable work horses for current particle physics phenomenology and are (at) the interface between theory and experiment.
This is free and open source software.
Sherpa simulations can be achieved for the following types of collisions:
- for lepton–lepton collisions, as explored by the CERN LEP experiments,
- for lepton–photon collisions,
- for photon–photon collisions with both photons either resolved or unresolved,
- for deep-inelastic lepton-hadron scattering, as investigated by the HERA experiments at DESY, and,
- in particular, for hadronic interactions as studied at the Fermilab Tevatron or the CERN LHC.
Website: sherpa-team.gitlab.io
Support: GitLab Code Repository
Developer: Tanju Gleisberg, Stefan Hoeche, Frank Krauss, Marek Schoenherr, Steffen Schumann, Frank Siegert, Jan Winter
License: GNU General Public License
Sherpa is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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