HERWIG Information

HERWIG is a Monte Carlo package for simulating Hadron Emission Reactions With Interfering Gluons, written by Pino Marchesini, Bryan Webber, Giovanni Abbiendi, Gennaro Corcella, Ian Knowles, Stefano Moretti, Kosuke Odagiri, Peter Richardson, Mike Seymour, and Luca Stanco.

Version 6.510 was released on the 31st of October 2005. The HERWIG source code can be obtained here.

If you use HERWIG, please refer to it something along the lines of:
HERWIG 6.5, G. Corcella, I.G. Knowles, G. Marchesini, S. Moretti, K. Odagiri, P. Richardson, M.H. Seymour and B.R.  Webber, JHEP 01 (2001) 010 [hep-ph/0011363]; hep-ph/0210213.
Copies of these papers can be obtained here: hep-ph/0011363; hep-ph/0210213.

Furthermore, if you use any supersymmetric processes, please refer also to:
S. Moretti, K. Odagiri, P. Richardson, M.H. Seymour and B.R. Webber, JHEP 0204 (2002) 028 [hep-ph/0204123].
A copy of this paper can be obtained here: hep-ph/0204123.

The classic paper on HERWIG, although by now very out of date, is:
G. Marchesini, B.R. Webber, G. Abbiendi, I.G. Knowles, M.H. Seymour and L. Stanco, Computer Phys. Commun. 67 (1992) 465.
A copy of this paper can be obtained here.


Note that this page is a mirror of the official HERWIG page at RAL, which should be consulted for more information.
Mike Seymour