MC Generators: Grappa

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MC Generators: GRAPPA

Note: Due to required changes to the Pythia interface, Grappa is still not available in cdfGen. It can be used in standalone mode.

Contact: Soushi Tsuno

Documentation:

CDF note 5932: GRAPPA: A GRACE-based Event Generator for pp/pp= Collisions (Soushi Tsuno)
GRACE: Automatic Computation of Cross Sections in HEP (F.Yuasa) (hep-ph/0108264)
GR@PPA_4b: A Four Bottom Quark Production Event Generator for pp/pp= Collisions (S. Tsuno et al.) (hep-ph/0204222)
Related Notes:
CDF note 5875: W+bbbar Monte Carlo Generators: Comparison of WBBGEN, GRAPPA and Pythia (Christopher Neu at al.)

Useful Links:

Examples:

For information on how Grappa works, its talk-to parameters and how to run it, see CDF note 5932.
Note: Due to required changes to the Pythia interface, Grappa is still not available in cdfSim or cdfGen. However, it can be used in standalone mode.
Simple instructions on how to use Grappa in standalone mode generating HEPG bank.
```
       addpkg grappa
       gmake grappa.lib
       gmake grappa.tbin
       GrappaExe ***.tcl
```
For appropriate tcl files, see CDF note 5932 or contact Soushi Tsuno.
GrappaModule.cc (source code of AC++ module)

Last modified: Sat Jul 27 12:46:02 EDT 2002

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