Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of WorkBook/Pythia8

Timestamp:

Jun 4, 2015, 4:39:19 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

Michele Selvaggi

Comment:

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WorkBook/Pythia8

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 First, you'll need a working [http://fastjet.fr/quickstart.html Pythia8] installation. 
-The environment variable {{{PYTHIA8}}} has to be defined. 
 
+Second, define an environment variable for the path to your PYTHIA installation directory
+ 
+{{{
+export PYTHIA8=path_to_PYTHIA8_installation 
+}}}
 
+and you can then build the {{{DelphesPythia8}}} executable with the following command:
 
-=== Generate events with Pythia8 within Delphes===
+{{{
+make HAS_PYTHIA8=true DelphesPythia8
+}}} 
+
+You can run a simple example for generating QCD Pythia8 events within Delphes:
+
+{{{
+./DelphesPythia8 cards/delphes_card_CMS.tcl examples/Pythia8/configNoLHE.cmnd delphes_nolhe.root
+}}}
+
+If you have your own Les Houches file (the path for the LHE is defined inside the *.cmnd file): 
+
+{{{
+./DelphesPythia8 cards/delphes_card_CMS.tcl examples/Pythia8/configLHE.cmnd delphes_lhe.root
+}}}
 
 
@@ -13 +32 @@
 
 
-Either way, you have to prepare a Pythia8 configuration file (usually defined with the *.cmnd extension).
+