Christian Speckner(University Freiburg), Thomas Reiter(MPP)
Description
The program package WHIZARD is treelevel Monte-Carlo event generator
geared towards the fast generation of parton level events for
multiparticle final states. This tutorial will give an introduction to
the basic usage of the program for generating and analyzing event
samples together with an outlook on the more advanced features of WHIZARD.
Please bring your own laptop if you want to participate in the excercises.
A virtual machine with a linux installation including WHIZARD and all
necessary prerequesites is being prepared and will be available under
http://www.mpp.mpg.de/~reiterth/whizard/ tomorrow. In order to use the
machine, you'll have to install Virtualbox which is usually available
from the package repository of your linux distribution or from
https://www.virtualbox.org/ for mac and windows. In order to use the
machine, start virtualbox and select "Import Appliance" from the "File"
menu. Be aware that this will be a ~3GB download, so it is advisable to
do it via ethernet before the tutorial starts.
