Any SLHA2 implement?

Asked by Li

Hi all,

    I am doing with SUSY and using SLHA2 format parameter card. I am not sure the latest version MG5 support SLHA2 or not? I load the UFO generated from SARAH and generate some processes, the param_card seems SLHA2 format. However the question https://answers.launchpad.net/mg5amcnlo/+question/277185 indicate MG5 only support SLHA1?

    Another question is, for a long live particle, will MG5 consider the life time in MG5 ? Will MG5 give the life time information to PYTHIA8?

    Thank you!

Best,
Li

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Best Olivier Mattelaer (olivier-mattelaer) said :
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Hi,

MadGraph does not care if your UFO model is based on the SLHA1/SLHA2 format.
The only problem in the past, was that Pythia6 was only working for SLHA1.
Since now PY6 is not supported anymore this is not an issue.

> Another question is, for a long live particle, will MG5 consider the life time in MG5 ? Will MG5 give the life time information to PYTHIA8?

By default, we do not do it, but you can edit the run_card and set the parameter
time_of_flight
to the value that you want and the information will be written inside the lhef file.
Such that any code reading that file can use that information.

Cheers,

Olivier

> On 15 Mar 2019, at 02:57, Li <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> New question #679213 on MadGraph5_aMC@NLO:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/mg5amcnlo/+question/679213
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am doing with SUSY and using SLHA2 format parameter card. I am not sure the latest version MG5 support SLHA2 or not? I load the UFO generated from SARAH and generate some processes, the param_card seems SLHA2 format. However the question https://answers.launchpad.net/mg5amcnlo/+question/277185 indicate MG5 only support SLHA1?
>
> Another question is, for a long live particle, will MG5 consider the life time in MG5 ? Will MG5 give the life time information to PYTHIA8?
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> Best,
> Li
>
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Li (huangli-itp) said :
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Hi Olivier,
    Great!
    Thank you very much!

Best,
Li

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Li (huangli-itp) said :
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Thanks Olivier Mattelaer, that solved my question.