== INFO ==
'''Title:''' Automated amplitudes computation starting from the Langrangian and events generation using FeynRules and Madgraph5_aMC@NLO [[BR]]
'''Lecturers:''' Celine Degrande and Olivier Mattelaer

== email ==
Olivier Mattelaer: o.p.c.mattelaer at durham.ac.uk
Celine Degrande: celine.degrande at durham.ac.uk

== Lectures ==
 1. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/LundFR1_1.pdf Field Theory]
 2. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/LundFR1_2.pdf FeynRules]
 3. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/Lund_3_MCGeneration.pdf Monte Carlo Generation]
 4. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/Lund_4_madgraph5lo.pdf MadGraph5]
 5. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/Lund_5_parton_shower.pdf Parton-Shower]
 6. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/Lund_6_matching_merging.pdf Matching and Merging]
 7. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/LundNLO.pdf NLO in FeynRules]
 8. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/Lund_7_amcnlo.pdf aMC@NLO]
 9. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/LundFR3.pdf Advanced FeynRules topics]
 10. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/Lund_10_Tools.pdf  Tools/Perspectives] 
 
== Tutorial ==

 1. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/FRtuto.pdf Tutorial FeynRules : Monday slides]
 2. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/Tutorial.pdf Tutorial FeynRules : Explanation sheet]
 3. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/Tutorial.fr Tutorial FeynRules : solution]
 4. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/14_09_23_tutomg_Lund.pdf Tutorial MadGraph (Tuesday)]
 5. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/Tutorial_UFO.tar.gz Tutorial UFO model (Tuesday)]
 6. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/Lund_TUTO_matching.pdf Tutorial Matching/Merging (Wednesday)]
 7. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/LundNLOTuto.pdf Tutorial NLO : Thursday slides]
 8. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/Tutorial_NLOLund.pdf Tutorial NLO : Explanation sheet]
 9. [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/Lund2014/tuto_lund_tools.pdf Tools Tutorial (friday)]

== Work Assignement ==

The exercise is to explain the Forward-Backward asymmetry at the Tevatron with an extension of the SM. It can be one of the following example : 
  1. an axigluon (see for example 1103.0956) 
  1. a t-channel flavor mixing new particle (see for example 0907.4112)
  1. an effective theory (see for example 1010.6304)
  1. or your favorite model. 
The model should be implemented in FeynRules and then used in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO to obtain the parameters constraints from the measured value of the asymmetry but also to see what are the other signatures of the model at the LHC and the Tevatron. Eventually, the model can be further constrained. The SM contribution should be computed at NLO with the parton shower. The BSM contribution can on the other hand be only computed at LO but with matching/merging.
If you do not have an access to mathematica, you can do the phenomenological analysis using [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/wiki/Models/TopEffTh this model]. 

The report should be send by email (see above) to the lecturers before December 2014. 
In attachment of your report, it is asked that you provide the FeynRules model file and the banner file of each generation.