MC-TESTER

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

CURRENT VERSION:

*** 5 May 2021
* MC-TESTER officially moved to CERN GitLab: MC-TESTER project
* MC-TESTER SVN has been officially closed at revision 232. History has been imported from SVN to GitLab.
* GitLab of MC-TESTER is publicly available. Software has been released under MIT license (see LICENSE.txt)

*** 21 March 2021
* Plans to revitalize MC-TESTER which include updating Makefile system and interface to HepMC 3 are getting activated
* Over these years in SVN revision 2017 (17 Jul 2012) evolved little. The last one 232 (of Feb 2015) remain private.
* Revision 228 (Nov 2012) was when MC-TESTER was published in CPC
* Time for comments/requests and new relese? Version below, remain the default one.

*** 17 July 2012
MC-TESTER 1.25.0 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'
* fixed memory allocation of histograms with ROOT that caused problems in CMSSW environment.
* added timestamp to generator description and two new options
* 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.
* Subversion 1.25.0 features fix for bug found in CMSSW environment, number of smaller bugfixes for newer compilers and few new options

• Downloads:
  • *** MC-Tester version 1.25.0 [RECOMENDED/STABLE]: (17 July 2012):
    MC-TESTER-1.25.0.tar.gz
  
  
• MC-Tester version 1.24.4 [ old ]: (25 October 2010):
  MC-TESTER-1.24.4.tar.gz
  


• MC-Tester version 1.24.3 [ old ]: (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 1.25.0: tester-1.25.0.pdf
      
      
    • Document for version 1.24.4 published in Computer Physics Communications, Vol 182/3 pp 779-789.
      
    • reference for citation:
      N. Davidson, P. Golonka, T. Przedzinski and Z.Was, Comput. Phys. Commun. 182(2011), pp 779-789
      doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2010.11.023
      
      
      
    • 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
    
    • Documented in preprint v1-version on arXiv (and stored among OLD VERSIONS of tar-balls):
    • 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