= Elegent =

Elegent (Elastic Event GENeraTor) is a Monte-Carlo generator of (anti-)proton-proton collisions, based on a number of theoretical/phenomenological models.

== Physics ==

* [[HadronicModels|models of hadronic/strong interaction]]
* [[CoulombInteraction|description of Coulomb interaction]]
* [[CoulombHadronicInterference|models of Coulomb-hadronic interference]]


== Elegent package ==

The logic...

* model implementation
* data-sheet generation

data-sheets available for [[http://www.hepforge.org/downloads/elegent|download]]

* event generator, output HepMC format

== Users' guide ==

=== Download and compilation ===

Either download an [[http://www.hepforge.org/downloads/elegent|Elegent release]] or checkout the code from Subversion:

`svn co svn+ssh://svn.hepforge.org/hepforge/svn/elegent/trunk`

Edit the `makefile` such that `ROOTDIR` and `HepMCDIR` point to your ROOT and HepMC installations.

Run `make`.



=== Generation of data-sheets ===

NB: you might want to skip this step as there are ready-made data-sheets available for [[http://www.hepforge.org/downloads/elegent|download]].

`bin/ElegentDistributionSampler`

* data-sheet structure, ROOT file, 2 types of sampling


=== testing the event generator ===

`bin/ElegentTest <file name> <model tag> <t_min> <t_max> <number of events>`