MC-TESTER

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

Authors: Piotr Golonka, Tomasz Pierzchala, Zbigniew Was. Extended to HepMC by Me.

Please look at the MC-TESTER web page by Piotr Golonka and his Paper describing the Tool.

Results from MC-TESTER

Download development version of MC-TESTER with C++ examples

Here is the latest

Please note: this version is currently being developed and is not an offical release. It may contain bugs etc. For offical releases please visit the MC-TESTER web page

Please look at the documentation for the new EvtGenLHC example.

To run the C++ example you will need PYTHIA 8.1 and the HepMC 2 package. Pythia 8 must be compiled with HepMC so that the library hepmcinterface exists.

Running Instructions

Install and set-up ROOT, Pythia 8 and HepMC.

Extract MC-TESTER and execute "make" in the main folder

The examples-C++ and example-F77 directories contains some programs which demonstrate the use of MC-TESTER. Below are the instructions for running the tau decay comparison for pythia 6.4 vs pythia 8 Z0 events.

Enter the subfolder example-F77/pythia and run

make
./pythiatest.exe
make move1

Enter the subfolder example-C++/pythia and run

make
./pythia_test.exe
make move2
cd ../../analyse/
make

This should produce a LaTex document similar to this but with fewer events.

Slides and Documentation

MC-TESTER web page

Paper describing the Tool

Savannah web-site

Doxygen Documentation

Slides from IFJ-PAN Tok seminar