Herwig 7.2 release note
Johannes Bellm, Gavin Bewick, Silvia Ferrario Ravasio, Stefan Gieseke, David Grellscheid, Patrick Kirchgaeßer, Frashër Loshaj, Mohammad R. Masouminia, Graeme Nail, Andreas Papaefstathiou, Simon Plätzer, Radek Podskubka, Michael Rauch, Christian Reuschle, Peter Richardson, Peter Schichtel, Michael H. Seymour, Andrzej Siódmok, Stephen Webster
Abstract
Abstract A new release of the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig (version 7.2) is now available. This version introduces a number of improvements over the major version 7.0, notably: multi-jet merging with the dipole shower at LO and NLO QCD; spin correlations in both the dipole and angular-ordered parton showers; an improved choice of evolution variable in the angular-ordered parton shower; improvements to mass effects and top decays in the dipole shower, improvements to the simulation of multiple-parton interactions, including diffractive processes; a new model for baryonic colour reconnection; improvements to strangeness production; as well as a new tune of the hadronisation parameters and support for generic Lorentz structures in BSM models. This article illustrates new features of versions 7.1 and 7.2.