This text file will instruct you about what to do[[br]]step by step in order to use the "user mode" of madgraph.[[br]][[br]]All you need is in Model/usrmod directory.[[br]]What you canc see here is [[br]][[br]]1/ Three ".dat" files you'll have to edit to enter[[br]]your own model...[[br]][[br]]2/ A directory wich contains part of files that will be used to create[[br]]".f" and ".inc" files needed by madgraph; this directory[[br]]is called Header_and_footer... you don't need to care about this[[br]][[br]]3/ ConversionScript.pl:[[br]] The perl script wich mix information from Header_and_footer[[br]] files and from .dat files...[[br]][[br]]4/ testprog.f[[br]] a little code that permti to check directly if all values[[br]] printed are the ones defined in param_card.dat.[[br]][[br]]5/couplingsvalue.f[[br]] Slightly the same role than testprog.f vut produce a text file[[br]] containing in a table the list of couplings and their values[[br]][[br]]To do things properly, make your own usermod directory to let the[[br]]original one intact, let' say you call it "z_prime"[[br]][[br]]**************************************************[[br]]1/ Editing the .dat files.[[br]][[br]]a/ particles.dat[[br]]----------------[[br]][[br]]This file lists all particles of the model.[[br]]The basis used here is Standard Model particles.[[br]][[br]]There are two very important tags you have to take into account:[[br]]MODEL EXTENSION and END.[[br]]Any new particle you want to use has to be described between those ones.[[br]][[br]]For example if you need a Z' you may write like the following:[[br]][[br]]#MODEL EXTENSION[[br]]zp zp V W ZPMASS ZPWIDTH S ZP 32[[br]]# END[[br]][[br]][[br]]ATTENTION: use space instead of TAB between chars...[[br]][[br]]The two first columns indicate particle and anti-particle names[[br]]The third is about particles type (Vector, Fermion or Scalar)[[br]]The fourth say how madgraph has to represent it on Feynman diagrams.[[br]]The fifth gives the variable name for the mass (max. 7 char.)[[br]]The sixth gives the variable name for the width (max.7 char.)[[br]]The seventh say if particles color type is singlet (S), triplet (T), or octet (O).[[br]]The eigth gives the label name in Feynman diagrams.[[br]]and finally the last one is the PDGCode of the particle.[[br]][[br]]*************[[br]]ABOUT PDGCODE:[[br]]For new kind of particle that do not possess PDG Code you can enter the number you want, just[[br]]ensure it is not yet used.[[br]]*************[[br]][[br]]Now once the new particles are entered, we have to deal with interactions.[[br]]So let's move on to interaction.dat file[[br]][[br]]b/ interaction.dat[[br]]------------------[[br]][[br]]As you can see, all Standard Model vertices are listed by type.[[br]]At the end of the file you can find the USRVertex part wich is the one[[br]]you have to edit.[[br]][[br]]You can do like te following:[[br]][[br]]# USRVertex[[br]]zp zp z GNNZ QED[[br]][[br]]wich gives the vertex name (you choose the one you want - madgraph is[[br]]full of freedom!) and type (QED) for Z'Z'Z interaction.[[br]][[br]]**************[[br]]ABOUT INTERACTION NAME:[[br]]Pay attention to the fact that interactions[[br]][[br]]f' f s and f f' s are different...and therefore need two differents[[br]]names! like for example: gfpfs and gffps...[[br]]*************[[br]][[br]]Ok this is fine but you still have to give the name of all parameters[[br]]that will have to be used in all vertices definitions.[[br]][[br]]c/ VariableName.dat[[br]]-------------------[[br]][[br]]Suppose you need an exotic coupling like:[[br]][[br]]GNNZ= param1/(param2*'''2)'''sqrt(param3)[[br]][[br]]The way to declare you paramaters is very simple: do it like the following:[[br]][[br]]write this:[[br]][[br]]param1 #comment for the first param[[br]]param2 #comment for second param[[br]]param3 #comment for third param[[br]][[br]]in VariableName.dat... that's all. This will permit to declare[[br]]parameters in input.inc file, and write comments in param_card.dat[[br]]automatically.[[br]][[br]]Obviously, you cannot declare parameter that are already existing in[[br]]particle.dat like masses and width, nor ones declared in[[br]]Header_and_Footer/coupl_header file...[[br]][[br]]*****************************************************************[[br]]2/ Run the shell script ./ConversionScript.pl[[br]][[br]]CAUTION: it will ask you wether you want to keep old couplings.f and[[br]] param_card.dat that you maybe changed in a previous run. The goam[[br]] here is to avoid to loose all changes you would have done before, in[[br]] other words: save you time and energy. In the case you answer by[[br]] "yes", old files are stored in the OldFiles directory, with an[[br]] incrementation.[[br]][[br]]*****************************************************************[[br]]3/ Look the results...[[br]]What did the perl script do?[[br]][[br]]It simply looked to what you entered in particles.dat,[[br]]interactions.dat and VariableName.dat and send those informations to[[br]]coupl.inc, couplings.f, input.inc, printout.f, ident_card.dat,[[br]]lha_reading.f and param_card.dat.[[br]][[br]]What you still need to do now is to edit two files:[[br]]couplings.f and param_card.dat.[[br]][[br]]Let's see what we find in couplings.f:[[br]][[br]]Near the end of the file you see something like:[[br]][[br]]c UserMode couplings[[br]][[br]][[br]] GNNZ=1d0[[br]][[br]][[br]]Instead of 1d0 wich is obviously the default value you have to edit[[br]]the true couplings value you want...this is the hard work part for[[br]]you![[br]]If the coupling is of the form VVV then it is declared as double[[br]]precision (All declarations are made in coupl.inc)[[br]]If the coupling is of the form VVSS, VVS, SSS, SSSS, VSS, VVV it is[[br]]declared as double complex and if the type is FFS or FFV, it is the[[br]]same thing BUT there is the separation between Vector and Axial part[[br]][[br]]Example:[[br]]a VVV interaction is written: gwwz = ee'''cw/sw[[br]][[br]]a VVS interaction is written: gzzh = dcmplx( ee2/sc2'''Half'''v, Zero )[[br]]where the first term in parenthesis indicates the real part and the[[br]]second the imaginary.[[br]][[br]]a FFS interaction is written: ghtop(1) = dcmplx( -mtMS/v, Zero )[[br]] ghtop(2) = dcmplx( -mtMS/v, Zero )[[br]][[br]][[br]]To be sure to how to enter differents kind of vertices, check out the HELAS manual:[[br]]HELAS: HELicity Amplitude Subroutines for Feynman Diagram Evaluation[[br]](Murayama,Watanabe,Hagiwara,Jan. 1992)[[br]][[br]][[br]]'''******************************************************************[[br]]4/ Adapt param_card.dat to your business[[br]][[br]]Your masses and widths variables are automatically inserted in[[br]]param_card.dat. By default they are set at 100 and 1 GeV respectively.[[br]]Then you just have to change those ones for you convinience...[[br]][[br]]******************************************************************[[br]]5/ Run the following to make a testprogram and check that everything[[br]]compiles and that the masses, widths and couplings are set as they[[br]]should:[[br]][[br]] make testprog[[br]] ./testprog[[br]][[br]] or[[br]][[br]] make couplings[[br]] ./couplingsvalue[[br]][[br]]It will show you wether good values are assigned to good variables...[[br]][[br]]*****************************************************************[[br]]6/ Change the proc_card.dat to do the process you wish:[[br]]for example:[[br]][[br]]pp>zpzp #First Process[[br]]99 #Max QCD couplings[[br]]99 #Max QED couplings[[br]]With the model called z_prime[[br]][[br]]Now you're ready to generate the smatrix. [[br]][[br]]***********************************************************[[br]]7/ Do ./bin/newprocess[[br]]*********************************************************[[br]]8/ Now you can generate some events: ./bin/generate_events Under construction -- Main.JohanAlwall - 01 Aug 2007