// main28.cc is a part of the PYTHIA event generator. // Copyright (C) 2012 Peter Skands, Torbjorn Sjostrand. // PYTHIA is licenced under the GNU GPL version 2, see COPYING for details. // Please respect the MCnet Guidelines, see GUIDELINES for details. // Example of of R-hadron production. // Several of the possibilities shown here, like displaced vertices, // are extras that need not be used for the basic setup. #include "Pythia.h" using namespace Pythia8; int main() { // Key settings to be used in the main program. // nGluino = 0, 1, 2 give stop pair, single gluino or gluino pair. int nGluino = 2; int nEvent = 200; int nAbort = 3; int nList = 0; double eCM = 7000.; // Generator. Shorthand for the event. Pythia pythia; Event& event = pythia.event; // Set up beams: p p is default so only need set energy. pythia.settings.parm("Beams:eCM", eCM); // Squark pair: use stop-antistop as example. if (nGluino == 0) { pythia.readString("SUSY:gg2squarkantisquark = on"); pythia.readString("SUSY:idA = 1000006"); pythia.readString("SUSY:idB = 1000006"); // Squark-gluino pair: also supersymmetric u has been made long-lived. // Stop does not work since then one would need inoming top PDF. // Nevertheless R-hadrons are numbered/named as if containing a stop. } else if (nGluino == 1) { pythia.readString("SUSY:qg2squarkgluino = on"); pythia.readString("SUSY:idA = 1000002"); pythia.readString("RHadrons:idStop = 1000002"); pythia.readString("SUSY:idB = 1000021"); // Gluino pair. } else { pythia.readString("SUSY:gg2gluinogluino = on"); } // Use hacked sps1a file, with stop (+su) and gluino made long-lived. // This is based on the width being less than 0.2 GeV by default. pythia.readString("SLHA:file = sps1aNarrowStopGluino.spc"); // Further hacked file, to test R-parity violating gluino decay. //pythia.readString("SLHA:file = sps1aNarrowStopGluinoRPV.spc"); // Allow R-hadron formation. pythia.readString("Rhadrons:allow = on"); // If you want to do the decay separately later, // you need to switch off automatic decays. pythia.readString("RHadrons:allowDecay = off"); // Fraction of gluinoballs. pythia.readString("RHadrons:probGluinoball = 0.1"); // Switch off key components. //pythia.readString("PartonLevel:MPI = off"); //pythia.readString("PartonLevel:ISR = off"); //pythia.readString("PartonLevel:FSR = off"); //pythia.readString("HadronLevel:Hadronize = off"); // Allow the R-hadrons to have secondary vertices: set c*tau in mm. // Note that width and lifetime can be set independently. // (Nonzero small widths are needed e.g. to select branching ratios.) pythia.readString("1000002:tau0 = 200."); pythia.readString("1000006:tau0 = 250."); pythia.readString("1000021:tau0 = 300."); // Checks. Optionally relax E-p-conservation. pythia.readString("Check:nErrList = 2"); //pythia.readString("Check:epTolErr = 2e-3"); // Possibility to switch off particle data and event listings. // Also to shop location of displaced vertices. pythia.readString("Init:showChangedSettings = on"); pythia.readString("Init:showChangedParticleData = off"); pythia.readString("Next:numberShowInfo = 1"); pythia.readString("Next:numberShowProcess = 1"); pythia.readString("Next:numberShowEvent = 0"); pythia.readString("Next:showScaleAndVertex = on"); // Initialize. pythia.init(); // Histograms. Hist nChargedH("charged multiplicity", 100, -0.5, 799.5); Hist dndyChargedH("dn/dy charged", 100, -10., 10.); Hist dndyRH("dn/dy R-hadrons", 100, -5., 5.); Hist pTRH("pT R-hadrons", 100, 0., 1000.); Hist xRH("p_RHadron / p_sparticle", 100, 0.9, 1.1); Hist mDiff("m(Rhadron) - m(sparticle)", 100, 0., 5.); Hist decVtx("R-hadron decay vertex (mm from origin)", 100, 0., 1000.); // R-hadron flavour composition. map flavours; // Begin event loop. int iAbort = 0; for (int iEvent = 0; iEvent < nEvent; ++iEvent) { // Generate events. Quit if failure. if (!pythia.next()) { if (++iAbort < nAbort) continue; cout << " Event generation aborted prematurely, owing to error!\n"; break; } // Loop over final charged particles in the event. // The R-hadrons may not yet have decayed here. int nCharged = 0; Vec4 pSum; for (int i = 0; i < event.size(); ++i) { if (event[i].isFinal()) { pSum += event[i].p(); if (event[i].isCharged()) { ++nCharged; dndyChargedH.fill( event[i].y() ); } } } nChargedH.fill( nCharged ); // Loop over final R-hadrons in the event: kinematic distribution for (int i = 0; i < event.size(); ++i) { int idAbs = event[i].idAbs(); if (idAbs > 1000100 && idAbs < 2000000 && idAbs != 1009002) { ++flavours[ event[i].id() ]; dndyRH.fill( event[i].y() ); pTRH.fill( event[i].pT() ); // Trace back to mother; compare momenta and masses. int iMother = i; while( event[iMother].statusAbs() > 100) iMother = event[iMother].mother1(); double xFrac = event[i].pAbs() / event[iMother].pAbs(); xRH.fill( xFrac); double mShift = event[i].m() - event[iMother].m(); mDiff.fill( mShift ); // Separation of R-hadron decay vertex from origin. // Don't be fooled by pAbs(); it gives the three-vector length // of any Vec4, also one representing spatial coordinates. double dist = event[i].vDec().pAbs(); decVtx.fill( dist); // This is a place where you could allow a R-hadron shift of // identity, momentum and decay vertex to allow for detector effects. // Identity not illustrated here; requires a change of mass as well. // Toy model: assume an exponential energy loss, < > = 1 GeV, // but at most half of kinetic energy. Unchanged direction. // Note that event will no longer conserve energy and momentum. double eLossAvg = 1.; double eLoss = 0.; do { eLoss = eLossAvg * pythia.rndm.exp(); } while (eLoss > 0.5 * (event[i].e() - event[i].m())); double eNew = event[i].e() - eLoss; Vec4 pNew = event[i].p() * sqrt( pow2(eNew) - pow2(event[i].m()) ) / event[i].pAbs(); pNew.e( eNew); event[i].p( pNew); // The decay vertex will be calculated based on the production vertex, // the proper lifetime tau and the NEW four-momentum, rather than // e.g. some average momentum, if you do not set it by hand. // This commented-out piece illustrates brute-force setting, // but you should provide real numbers from some tracking program. // With tau = 0 the decay is right at the chosen point. //event[i].tau( 0.); //event[i].vProd( 132., 155., 233., 177.); // End of loop over final R-hadrons. } } // If you have set R-hadrons stable above, // you can still force them to decay at this stage. pythia.forceRHadronDecays(); if (iEvent < nList) pythia.event.list(true); // End of event loop. } // Final statistics, flavour composition and histogram output. pythia.stat(); cout << "\n Composition of produced R-hadrons \n code " << "name times " << endl; for (map::iterator flavNow = flavours.begin(); flavNow != flavours.end(); ++flavNow) cout << setw(8) << flavNow->first << setw(16) << pythia.particleData.name(flavNow->first) << setw(8) << flavNow->second << endl; cout << nChargedH << dndyChargedH << dndyRH << pTRH << xRH << mDiff << decVtx; // Done. return 0; }