How to make your own Monte Carlo Event Generator

Overview

Teaching: 30 min
Exercises: 5 min

Questions

• How to make your own monte carlo event generator using basic python?

Objectives

• Motivation on how the a monte carlo event generator works?

We may make use of the following papers/software to develop this episode.

• Papers:
  1. A. Papaefstathiou, How-to: write a parton-level Monte Carlo particle physics event generator. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 135, 497 (2020).
  2. A. Desai, Monte Carlo Event Generator for the ABC Model (Pre-print), https://zenodo.org/record/8181098.

• Software:

  1. A. Desai, CompScat MC Event Generator for the Compton Scattering
  2. A. Desai, pymcabc MC Event Generator for the ABC Model

Key Points