Computer tools in particle physics

Abstract

The field of particle physics is living very exciting times with a plethora of experiments looking for new physics in complementary ways. This has made increasingly necessary to obtain precise predictions in new physics models in order to be ready for a discovery that might be just around the corner. However, analyzing new models and studying their phenomenology can be really challenging. Computing mass matrices, interaction vertices and decay rates is already a tremendous task. In addition, obtaining predictions for the dark matter relic density and its detection prospects, computing flavor observables or estimating the LHC reach in certain collider signals constitutes quite a technical work due to the precision level that is currently required. For this reason, computer tools such as SARAH, MicrOmegas, MadGraph, SPheno or FlavorKit have become quite popular, and many physicists use them on a daily basis. In this course we will learn how to use these computer tools to explore new physics models and get robust numerical predictions to probe them in current and future experiments.

68 pages, 2 figures. Notes of the mini-course given at CINVESTAV, Mexico, Cátedra Augusto García González, June 22nd-26th, 2015. v4: several updates and improvements

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• The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations
• micrOMEGAs2.0: a program to calculate the relic density of dark matter in a generic model
• MadAnalysis 5, a user-friendly framework for collider phenomenology
• micrOMEGAs4.1: two dark matter candidates
• Automatic Calculation of supersymmetric Renormalization Group Equations and Self Energies
• SARAH 3.2: Dirac Gauginos, UFO output, and more
• Indirect search for dark matter with micrOMEGAs2.4
• Shedding light on the $b\to s$ anomalies with a dark sector
• Implications of $b\to s$ measurements
• Parity Problem of the Scotogenic Neutrino Model
• Latest results on rare decays from LHCb

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