MC-TESTER

a universal tool for comparisons of Monte Carlo predictions in High Energy Physics

CURRENT VERSION:

*** 25 October 2010
MC-TESTER 1.24.4 released RECOMMENDED
* OK for C++ compiler option `-pedantic`, but because of ROOT TObject.h and dictionaries at least one other option must go with it: '-Wno-long-long'
* autoconfig installed,
* minor bugs fixed.
* If you prefer not to use configuration scripts, you may find README-NO-CONFIG.txt useful.
* Doxygen documentation need to be updated.
* Subversion 1.24.2 differs in configuration scripts only: option --with-root added selection of fortran compiler improved, installation scripts LCG style available as option.
* Subversion 1.24.3 features new script to merge results of several runs into single root file. Useful if parallel production is featured.
* Subversion 1.24.4 features improved Doxygen documentation (comments in the code), mninor bugs fixed.

• Downloads:
  • *** MC-Tester version 1.24.4 [RECOMENDED/STABLE]: (25 October 2010):
    MC-TESTER-1.24.4.tar.gz
  
  
• MC-Tester version 1.24.3 [ configure scripts merge script / development ]: (27 Apr 2010):
  MC-TESTER-1.24.3.tar.gz
  


• MC-Tester version 1.24.2 [ old ]: (2 March 2010):
  MC-TESTER-1.24.2.tar.gz
  


• LCG/Genser downoald page includes MC-TESTER binaries


• OLD VERSIONS
  


• ROOT download page

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• Documentation:
  • MC-TESTER a universal tool for comparisons of Monte Carlo predictions in High Energy Physics
    
    
    
    • Document updated for version 1.24.4 as to be published in CPC .
      
      
    • Document for version 1.1 published in Computer Physics Communications, Vol 157/1 pp 39-62.
      
      
    • reference for citation:
      P.Golonka, T.Pierzchala, and Z.Was, Comput. Phys. Commun. 157(2004)1, pp 39-62
      doi:10.1016/S0010-4655(03)00466-1
      
    
    
    • Preprint versions:
    • LANL: hep-ph/0210252: (version 1.1) [Abstract] , [PostScript] , [other formats] , [local PostScript copy]
    • Linear Collider note LC-TOOL-2003-004 (version 1.1) [PDF]
    • CERN-TH/2002-271 (version 1.0)
    • TP-USl-01/02 (version 1.0)
    
    
  • MC-TESTER v. 1.23: a universal tool for comparisons of Monte Carlo predictions
    
    • Preprint version on arXiv:
    • http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.3215
    
    
  • Technical documentation (outdated and incomplete) (generated by doxygen)
  
  
  • Talks and presentations



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• Projects that make use of MC-TESTER:
  
  
  • Tests of PHOTOS Hard Bremsstrahlung with KKMC, KoralZ, TAUOLA and PYTHIA,
    ! see also Tests and extension on PHOTOS: case of exact first order Matrix element in W --> lepton neutrino (gamma) by Gizo Nanava and Zbigniew Was
  • Comparison of Pythia 6.4 and Pythia 8 for TAU decays,
    comparison of EvtGenLHC and Pythia 8 for B decays
    (and other comparisons to be completed)
  • MC-Tester in Athena (The ATLAS experiment's software framework)
    
  • ! Benchmark Results from MC-TESTER for W and Z decay
    



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• Final comment:
  
  We are aware that you will find the ways to use the package, we have never thought about.
  This may expose bugs we have never encountered.
  Any of your comments on problems or suggestions of new features are welcome.
  Please direct all your comments to:
  Piotr.Golonka@CERN.CH
  Zbigniew.Was@CERN.CH
  Tomasz.Przedzinski@cern.ch or
  Nadia.Davidson@CERN.CH
• Please add any bugs to the MC-TESTER Savannah website