https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2238-0
Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory
Supersymmetry and generic BSM models in Pythia 8
1
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, 211019, India
2
Theoretical Physics, CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
* e-mail: peter.skands@cern.ch
Received:
28
June
2012
Revised:
6
November
2012
Published online:
14
December
2012
We describe the implementation of supersymmetric models in Pythia 8 including production and decay of superparticles and allowing for violation of flavour, CP, and R-parity. We also present a framework for importing generic new-physics matrix elements into Pythia 8, in a way suitable for use with automated tools. We emphasize that this possibility should not be viewed as the only way to implement new-physics models in Pythia 8, but merely as an additional possibility on top of the already existing ones. Finally we address parton showers in exotic colour topologies, in particular ones involving colour-epsilon tensors and colour sextets.
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