==== MadGraph prolegomena ==== * Logon to the MadGraph [http://madgraph.phys.ucl.ac.be web site] and register. * Familiarize with the code by generating a few processes in QED and QCD trying to guess which diagrams appear. What is the minimum number of jets have to be asked for in $e^+e^-$ collisions so that the triple gauge vertex appear? * Look at the new physics models and check the particle and interactions content. * Generate events for a few selected processes and look at the plots: * ttbar production with decays: pp>tt~>bb~mu+e-ve~vm * VV production: pp>VV> leptons, with V=Z,W. * Single top + Higgs: pp>tHj (QCD=0, QED=3, j=gudsc,p=gudscb). Show that there is a large negative interference between the diagrams -- Main.FabioMaltoni - 03 Jan 2008