An introduction to PYTHIA 8.2

This program has been imported from the CPC Program Library held at Queen's University Belfast (1969-2018)

Abstract
The Pythia program is a standard tool for the generation of events in high-energy collisions, comprising a coherent set of physics models for the evolution from a few-body hard process to a complex multiparticle final state. It contains a library of hard processes, models for initial- and final-state parton showers, matching and merging methods between hard processes and parton showers, multiparton interactions, beam remnants, string fragmentation and particle decays. It also has a set of uti...

Title of program: Pythia 8.2
Catalogue Id: ACTU_v4_0

Nature of problem
High-energy collisions between elementary particles normally give rise to complex final states, with large multiplicities of hadrons, leptons, photons and neutrinos. The relation between these final states and the underlying physics description is not a simple one, for two main reasons. Firstly, we do not even in principle have a complete understanding of the physics. Secondly, any analytical approach is made intractable by the large multiplicities.

Versions of this program held in the CPC repository in Mendeley Data
ACTU_v1_0; PYTHIA 5.7 AND JETSET 7.4; 10.1016/0010-4655(94)90132-5
ACTU_v2_0; PYTHIA V6.154; 10.1016/S0010-4655(00)00236-8
ACTU_v2_1; PYTHIA Version number: 6.420; 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.08.008
ACTU_v3_0; Pythia 8.1; 10.1016/j.cpc.2008.01.036
ACTU_v4_0; Pythia 8.2; 10.1016/j.cpc.2015.01.024