LxJet


Short description

LxJet is a C++ Monte Carlo program devoted to calculation of jet cross sections at small x at Leading Order (LO) in QCD perturbation theory. It can be also viewed as an event generator as it allows to generate unweighted events. It uses high energy factorization approach, i.e. the cross section is calculated as a convolution of off-shell gauge-invariant LO matrix elements and unintegrated gluon densities (the approach originated in Catani, Ciafaloni, Hautmann). The program uses ROOT to provide some tools (notably FOAM) and to store and analyze the generated events. LxJet is a constantly developing project, but unfortunately I'm unable to prepare a release version for each update right away. Email me if you have any questions or comments (my contact info is in the main page).


Notice: LxJet is a discontinued project. At present we work on a completely new LxJetNLO Monte Carlo (see "Projects" in the main page).


Calculations using LxJet


Source releases:

LxJet v2.0 (available upon request)
  • new processes added
  • implementation of Improved TMD factorization for dijets [JHEP 1509 (2015) 106]
  • support for three-scale unintegrated PDFs
  • some bugs fixed

LxJet v1.1 ( download 790 kB )
  • a concept of user-modules was introduced; it allows for more transparent management of different runs
  • events with negative weights are now supported
  • other minor changes
  • WARNING: a bug that doesn't allow to run user modules in newer gcc. This was fixed in the newer version (contact me if you need a workaround).

LxJet v1.0 ( source no more available )

  • hybrid high energy factorization suitable for forward jets, (unintegrated and collinear gluon densities)
  • implemented helicity tree-level amplitudes for all channels for dijets and three jets
  • implementation of recursive relation for color ordered tree-level amplitudes with single off-shell leg for arbitrary number of gluons
  • currently the native phase space generator is up to three final state partons
  • requirements
    • linux system
    • cmake
    • ROOT



Credits

The initial versions of the program has been developed during the realization of the grant LIDER/02/35/L-2/10/NCBiR/2011 of dr Krzysztof Kutak. The version 2.0 was developed during my stay at Penn State University.

Last modified: 09/2020


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