Primary publication describing the aims of CompHEP project and the architecture of CompHEP package:
E.E.Boos, M.N.Dubinin, V.F.Edneral, V.A.Ilyin, A.P.Kryukov, A.E.Pukhov, A.Ya.Rodionov, V.I.Savrin, D.A.Slavnov, A.Yu.Taranov.
CompHEP - computer system for calculation of particle collisions at high energies
SINP MSU report 89-63/140, 1989, 16p. Scanned version from KEK library
Early developments of CompHEP (1990-1993)
E.E.Boos, M.N.Dubinin, V.F.Edneral, V.A.Ilyin, A.P.Kryukov, A.E.Pukhov, V.I.Savrin, S.A.Shichanin, A.Yu.Taranov, in: New Computing Techniques in Physics Research, ed. by D.Perret-Gallix, W.Wojcik, Proc.of International Workshop on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for High Energy and Nuclear Physics ( AIHENP - 90 ), Editions du CNRS, Paris, 1990, p. 573-580
E.E.Boos, M.N.Dubinin, V.F.Edneral, V.A.Ilyin, A.E.Pukhov, V.I.Savrin, S.A.Shichanin, in: Proc. of IV International Conference on Computer Algebra in Physics Research, ed. by D.V.Shirkov, V.A.Rostivtsev, V.P.Gerdt, World Scientific, 1991, p.63-65
E.E.Boos, M.N.Dubinin, V.F.Edneral, V.A.Ilyin, A.P.Kryukov, A.E.Pukhov, V.I.Savrin, S.A.Shichanin, in: Standard Model and Beyond: from LEP to UNK and LHC. Proc. of the First International Triangle Workshop CERN-IHEP-JINR, ed. by S.Dubnicka, D.Ebert, A.Sazonov, World Scientific, 1991, p. 265-269
E.E.Boos, M.N.Dubinin, V.F.Edneral, V.A.Ilyin, A.P.Kryukov, A.E.Pukhov, S.A.Shichanin, Applications of CompHEP system to particle processes calculation, SINP MSU report 91-9/213, 1991, 36p. Scanned version from KEK library
E.Boos, M.Dubinin, V.Edneral, V.Ilyin, A.Kryukov, A.Pukhov, S.Shichanin, CompHEP - integrated system for calculations in high energy physics, in: New Computing Techniques in Physics Research II. Proc. of International Workshop on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for High Energy and Nuclear Physics (AIHENP-92), World Scientific, Singapore, 1993, p. 665-670
CompHEP and colliders with electron beam conversion to photons
E.E.Boos, M.N.Dubinin, V.F.Edneral, V.A.Ilyin, G.V.Jikia, A.E.Pukhov, V.I.Savrin, S.A.Shichanin, S.F.Sultanov, The GAP project of computer aided theoretical calculations for future $\gamma p$, $\gamma e$, $\gamma \gamma$ colliders physical programs, in: Proc. of the International Conference on Computing in High Energy Physics, ed. by Y.Watase, F.Abe, Universal Academy Press, Tokyo, 1991, p. 391-400
E.E.Boos, M.N.Dubinin, V.F.Edneral, V.A.Ilyin, G.V.Jikia, A.E.Pukhov, V.I.Savrin, S.A.Shichanin, S.F.Sultanov, GAP project: $\gamma p$, $\gamma e$, $\gamma \gamma$ colliders physical programs and CompHEP computer system, in: 91' Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories. Proc. of the XXVI Recontre de Moriond, ed. by Tran Thanh Van, Editions Frontieres, 1991, p.501-522
E.E.Boos, M.N.Dubinin, V.A.Ilyin, G.V.Jikia, A.E.Pukhov, S.F.Sultanov, Associated Higgs boson production in $\gamma e$ collisions, Puzzles on the Electroweak Scale. Proc. of the XIV international Warsaw meeting on elementary particle physics, ed. by Z.Ajduk, S.Pokorski, A.K.Wroblewski, World Scientific, 1992, p. 324-328
E.E.Boos, M.N.Dubinin, V.F.Edneral, V.A.Ilyin, G.V.Jikia, A.E.Pukhov, V.I.Savrin, S.A.Shichanin, S.F.Sultanov, Physics on future $\gamma p$ and $\gamma e$ colliders at TeV energy scale and computer system CompHEP, DESY report 91-114, Hamburg, 1991, 24p
E.E.Boos, M.N.Dubinin, V.A.Ilyin, A.E.Pukhov, W, Z and H bosons in three particle final states at TeV energy $\gamma e$ and $\gamma \gamma$ colliders, in: $e^+ e^-$ Collisions at 500 GeV: the Physics Potential. Proc. of the Workshop Munich, Annecy, Hamburg, ed. by P.Zerwas, DESY report 93-123C, 1993, p.561-590
Joint publication with the GRACE group (KEK, Tsukuba)
E.Boos, M.Dubinin, V.Edneral, V.Ilyin, A.Pukhov, S.Shichanin, T.Kaneko, S.Kawabata, Y.Kurihara, Y.Shimizu, H.Tanaka, Automatic calculations in high energy physics by GRACE/CHANEL and CompHEP. Int.J.Mod.Phys., C5 (1994) 615-628
Seoul National University report (talk of V.Savrin at the Korean Physical Society meeting, October 21, 1994)
E.Boos, M.Dubinin, V.Ilyin, A.Pukhov, V.Savrin, CompHEP. Specialized package for automatic calculations of elementary particle decays and collisions, SNU CTP report 94-36/358, 1994 (hep-ph/9503280)
CompHEP and four-fermion states at LEP2. Publications in the CERN Yellow Report 1996
P.Aurenche, G.A.Schuler et al., Gamma-Gamma physics at LEP2, in: Physics at LEP2, ed. by G.Altarelli, T.Sjostrand, F.Zwirner, CERN report 96-01, vol. I, Geneva, 1996, p. 291-348 (hep-ph/9601317)
D.Bardin, R.Kleiss et al., Event Generators for WW Physics, in: Physics at LEP2, ed. by G.Altarelli, T.Sjostrand, F.Zwirner, CERN report 96-01, vol. I, Geneva, 1996, p. 3-102 (hep-ph/9709270)
F.Boudjema, B.Mele et al., Standard Model Processes, in: Physics at LEP2, ed. by G.Altarelli, T.Sjostrand, F.Zwirner, CERN report 96-01, vol. I, Geneva, 1996, p. 207-249 (hep-ph/9601224)
M.Carena, P.M.Zerwas et al., Higgs physics at LEP2, in: Physics at LEP2, ed. by G.Altarelli, T.Sjostrand, F.Zwirner, CERN report 96-01, vol. I, Geneva, 1996, p. 351-463 (hep-ph/9602250)
M.L.Mangano, G.Ridolfi et al., Event Generators for Discovery Physics, in: Physics at LEP2, ed. by G.Altarelli, T.Sjostrand, F.Zwirner, CERN report 96-01, vol. II, Geneva, 1996, p. 299-353 (hep-ph/9602203)
Summary of physical results, 1997
P.A.Baikov, E.E.Boos, M.N.Dubinin, V.F.Edneral, V.A.Ilyin, D.V.Kovalenko, A.P.Kryukov, A.E.Pukhov, V.I.Savrin, A.V.Semenov, S.A.Shichanin, Physical results by means of CompHEP, in: Proc. of X Workshop on High Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory, ed. by B.B.Levtchenko, V.I.Savrin, Moscow, 1996, p.101-116 (hep-ph/9701412)
CPP proceedings 1998
E.Boos et al., Achievements in the Standard Model, in: Proc. of the I Symposium on Computational Particle Physics (CPP 1998), Tokyo, Japan, 27 Nov 1998, p.26-34
G.Belanger et al., Achievements beyond the Standard Model, in: Proc. of the I Symposium on Computational Particle Physics (CPP 1998), Tokyo, Japan, 27 Nov 1998, p.35-43
Algorithms
A.P.Kryukov, A.Ya.Rodionov, Color: Program For Calculation Of Group Weights Of Feynman Diagrams In Nonabelian Gauge Theories, Comput.Phys.Commun. 48 (1988) 327-334
A.D.Kennedy, Spinography: Diagrammatic Methods For Spinors In Feynman Diagrams, Phys.Rev. D26 (1982) 1936
G.Peter Lepage, A New Algorithm for Adaptive Multidimensional Integration (VEGAS), J.Comput.Phys. 27 (1978) 192
S.Kawabata, A New Monte Carlo Event Generator for High-Energy Physics, Comput.Phys.Commun. 41 (1986) 127
S.Kawabata, Monte Carlo integration packages BASES and DICE, in: New computing techniques in physics research, Proc. of 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for High-energy and Nuclear Physics, La Londe Les Maures, France, 13-18 Jan 1992, p. 745-750
Y. Kurihara, D. Perret-Gallix, Y. Shimizu, e+ e- –> e- anti-electron-neutrino u anti-d from LEP to linear collider energies, Phys.Lett. B349 (1995) 367
D. Kovalenko, A. Pukhov, Multiparticle phase space integration with arbitrary set of singularities in CompHEP, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A389 (1997) 299
V.A. Ilyin, D.N. Kovalenko, A.E. Pukhov, Recursive algorithm for the generation of relativistic kinematics for collisions and decays with regularizations of sharp peaks, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C7 (1996) 761 (hep-ph/9612479)
E.E. Boos, V.A. Ilyin, A.N. Skachkova, Simplification of flavor combinatorics in evaluation of hadronic processes, JHEP 0005 (2000) 052 (hep-ph/0004194)
A. Sherstnev, An Iterative Rejection Sampling Method, hep-ph/0807.2823
A. Sherstnev, R.S. Thorne, Different PDF approximations useful for LO Monte Carlo generators, hep-ph/0807.2132
V. Edneral, A. Semenov, The Translation of Computer Programs from Environment Turbo PASCAL/DOS to C/UNIX, preprint INP MSU 93-26/318, Moscow, 1993 (in Russian)
V. Edneral, A. Semenov, The Emulation of Graphic Library of BORLAND Turbo C/PASCAL at the Environment of OS UNIX, preprint INP MSU 93-27/319, 1993 (in Russian)
Comparisons with other packages
A. Belyaev, E. Boos, L. Dudko, A. Pukhov, W + 2 jets production at Tevatron: VECBOS and CompHEP comparison, D0 note 2784, 1995 (hep-ph/9511306)
Comparisons of CompHEP results (contributed by M. Dubinin) with generators EXCALIBUR, GRACE, ALPHA, WTO and WPHACT for the case of four-fermion states production at LEP2 can be found in:
D.Bardin, R.Kleiss et al., Event Generators for WW Physics, in: Physics at LEP2, ed. by G.Altarelli, T.Sjostrand, F.Zwirner, CERN report 96-01, vol. I, Geneva, 1996, p. 3-102 (hep-ph/9709270)
F.Boudjema, B.Mele et al., Standard Model Processes, in: Physics at LEP2, ed. by G.Altarelli, T.Sjostrand, F.Zwirner, CERN report 96-01, vol. I, Geneva, 1996, p. 207-249 (hep-ph/9601224)
More comparisons including the channels four fermions + photon and single W-boson production at LEP2 energies (contributions by M. Dubinin) can be found in:
Martin W. Grunewald, Giampiero Passarino et al., Reports of the Working Groups on Precision Calculations for LEP2 Physics: Proceedings. Four fermion production in electron positron collisions, CERN report 009-A, Geneva, 2000, p. 1-135 (hep-ph/0005309)
Interfaces and databases
J.Alwall, E.Boos, L.Dudko, M.Gigg, M.Herquet, A.Pukhov, P.Richardson, A.Sherstnev, P.Skands, A Les Houches Interface for BSM Generators, arXiv:0712.3311, 2007
S.Belov, L.Dudko, E.Galkin, A.Gusev, W. Pokorski, A. Sherstnev, LCG MCDB: A Knowledgebase of Monte Carlo Simulated Events, Comput.Phys.Commun. 178 (2008) 222 (hep-ph/0703287)
J. Alwall et al., A Standard format for Les Houches event files, Comput.Phys.Commun. 176 (2007) 300-304 (hep-ph/0609017)
A. Sherstnev, R.S.Thorne, Parton Distributions for LO Generators, arXiv:0711.2473, 2007
P.Bartalini, L.Dudko, A.Kryukov, I.Selyuzhenkov, A.Sherstnev, A.Vologdin, LCG Monte-Carlo data base: LCG generator services subproject, hep-ph/0404241, 2004
CompHEP architecture and algorithms have been improving for a long time since 1989 in practical calculations of various reactions. Main publications of the 1990ties until approximately 2002 where a number of production channels are discussed for the complete tree-level sets of diagrams and some technical details can be found are listed below.
Higgs boson production
E.E.Boos, M.N.Dubinin, V.A.Ilyin, G.V.Jikia, A.E.Pukhov, S.F.Sultanov, Associated Higgs boson production in $\gamma e$ collisions. Phys. Lett. B273 (1991) 173
E.E.Boos, M.N.Dubinin, Complete tree level calculation of the $e^+ e^- \to Z b \bar b$ process at LEP200. Higgs signal and background. Phys. Lett. B308 (1993) 147
M.Dubinin, V.Edneral, Y.Kurihara, Y.Shimizu, Complete tree level calculation of the $e^+ e^- \to \nu \bar \nu b \bar b$ process and the Higgs signal at LEP200 and Next Linear Colliders. Phys. Lett. B329 (1994) 379
E. Boos, M. Sachwitz, H.J. Schreiber S. Shichanin, Complete tree level calculation of the reaction e+ e- —> mu+ mu- b anti-b and the Higgs boson signal at LEP-200 and NLC energies. Z.Phys. C61 (1994) 675
E. Boos, M. Sachwitz, H.J. Schreiber S. Shichanin, The Reaction e+ e- —> neutrino anti-neutrino b anti-b and the Higgs signal at LEP-200 and NLC. Int.J.Mod.Phys. A10 (1995) 2067
E. Boos, M. Sachwitz, H.J. Schreiber S. Shichanin, The b anti-b pair production and the Higgs signal in the reaction e+ e- –> e+ e- b anti-b at LEP-2 and NLC energies. Z.Phys. C64 (1994) 391
E. Boos, M. Sachwitz, H.J. Schreiber S. Shichanin, Higgs and background production in the reaction e+ e- → b anti-b + 2 jets at LEP-2 and NLC energies. Z.Phys. C67 (1995) 613
E.E.Boos, M.N.Dubinin, L.V.Dudko, Higgs boson production under the resonance threshold at LEP II. Int.J.Mod.Phys. A11 (1996) 5015
M.N.Dubinin, V.A.Ilyin, V.I.Savrin, Light Higgs boson signal at LHC in the reactions $pp\to \gamma \gamma + jet$ and $pp\to \gamma \gamma + lepton$. CMS Note 97-101, 1997
S.Abdullin, M.Dubinin, V.Ilyin, D.Kovalenko, V.Savrin, N.Stepanov, Higgs boson discovery potential of LHC in the channel $pp \to \gamma \gamma + jet$. Phys. Lett. B431 (1998) 410
M.N.Dubinin, Higgs boson signal in the reaction $pp\to \gamma \gamma +$ two forward jets. CMS Note 2001/022, 2001
M.N.Dubinin, H.J.Schreiber, A.Vologdin, Measurement of the HZgamma coupling at the future linear collider. Eur.Phys.J. C30 (2003) 337
M.Dubinin, V.Litvin, Y.Ma, H.Newman, M.Pieri, Vector boson fusion production with H —> gamma gamma. CMS Note 2006/097, 2006
M.Dubinin, Aspects of CompHEP applications to hadronic collider physics. PoS CPP2010 (2010) 002
Top quark production
E. Boos, M.Sachwitz, H.J.Schreiber, S.Shichanin, A.Pukhov, V.Ilyin, T.Ishikawa, T.Kaneko, T.Kawabata, S.Kurihara, Y.Shimizu, H.Tanaka. Single top quark production at LEP-200? Phys.Lett. B326 (1994) 190
E.Boos, Y.Kurihara, Y.Shimizu, M.Sachwitz, H.J.Schreiber, S.Shichanin Top quark production in the reaction e+ e- → e neutrino t b at linear collider energies. Z.Phys. C70 (1996) 255
E.Boos, L.Dudko, T.Ohl, Complete calculations of W b anti-b and W b anti-b + jet production at Tevatron and LHC: Probing anomalous W t b couplings in single top production. Eur.Phys.J. C11 (1999) 473
A.S.Belyaev, E.E.Boos, L.V.Dudko, Single top quark at future hadron colliders: Complete signal and background study. Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 075001
E.Boos, M.Dubinin, M.Sachwitz, H.J.Schreiber, Probe of the $Wtb$ coupling in $t \bar t$ pair production at linear colliders. Eur.Phys.J. C16 (2000) 269
E.Boos, M.Dubinin, A.Pukhov, M.Sachwitz, H.J.Schreiber, Single top production in $e^+ e^-$, $e^- e^-$, $\gamma e$ and $\gamma \gamma$ collisions. Eur.Phys.J. C21 (2001) 81
E.E. Boos, A.V. Sherstnev, Spin effects in processes of single top quark production at hadron colliders. Phys.Lett.B534 (2002) 97
E.Boos, V.Bunichev, L.Dudko, M.Perfilov, Interference between W-prime and W in single-top quark production processes. Phys.Lett.B655 (2007) 245
W-boson production
M.N.Dubinin, H.S.Song, Anomalous $W$ boson production at HERA. Phys.Rev. D57 (1998) 2927
M.N.Dubinin, H.S.Song, $W$ boson production at upgraded HERA, in: Monte-Carlo generators for HERA physics. Proc. of DESY workshop 98/99, ed. by G.Grindhammer, G.Ingelman, H.Jung, T.Doyle, DESY-PROC-1999-02, p.614 (hep-ph/9906384)
E.E.Boos, M.N.Dubinin, Single $W$ boson production at linear colliders, in: Proc. of XIV Workshop on High Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory, ed.by B.B.Levtchenko, V.I.Savrin, Moscow, 2000, p.231 (hep-ph/9909214)
Separation of the gauge invariant subsets in the complete tree-level set of diagrams
E.Boos, T.Ohl, Minimal gauge invariant classes of tree diagrams in gauge theories, Phys.Rev.Lett.83 (1999) 480 (hep-ph/9903357)
applications to the channel e^+ e^- → nu_e bar nu_e e^+ e^- (contribution by E.Boos, M.Dubinin, V.Ilyin) can be found in:
Martin W. Grunewald, Giampiero Passarino et al., Reports of the Working Groups on Precision Calculations for LEP2 Physics: Proceedings. Four fermion production in electron positron collisions, CERN report 009-A, Geneva, 2000, p. 1-135 (hep-ph/0005309)
Short survey of automatic calculations 2010
Edward Boos, Mikhail Dubinin, Problems of automatic calculation for collider physics, Phys.Usp. 53 (2010) 1039-1051
Э.Э. Боос, М.Н. Дубинин, Проблемы автоматических вычислений для физики на коллайдерах, Успехи физических наук, 53, № 10 (2010) 1081-1094
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