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Elegent

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

The project is maintained by Jan Kašpar (contact info at the home page).

Physics

Elegent package

The package consists of the following components.

  1. C++ implementation of the models described above. For more details, please refer to the API description.
  2. A program (ElegentDistributionSampler) to build a number of distributions of interest (differential and cumulative cross-sections, etc.) at a given collision energy. The output is a ROOT file called datasheet (for details, please refer to the datasheet description).
  3. A class (Generator) that loads a specified cumulative distribution function from a datasheet and generates random events in the HepMC format. This class can easily be embedded in any program. As an example, you can have a look at the TestElegent program.

Users' guide

Download and compilation

Either download an 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 datasheets

NB: you might want to skip this step as there are ready-made datasheets available for download.

bin/ElegentDistributionSampler

  • datasheet structure, ROOT file, 2 types of sampling

Testing the event generator

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