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// main112.cc is a part of the PYTHIA event generator.
// Copyright (C) 2024 Torbjorn Sjostrand.
// PYTHIA is licenced under the GNU GPL v2 or later, see COPYING for details.
// Please respect the MCnet Guidelines, see GUIDELINES for details.
// Keywords:
// Basic usage
// Z production
// Tevatron
// Matplotlib
// This is a simple test program, equivalent with main102,
// for the pT_Z spectrum at the Tevatron, but with plotting of histogram.
// Assuming that you have Python3 installed on your platform, do as follows.
// After the program has run, type "python3 plot112.py" (without the " ")
// in a terminal window, and open "fig112.pdf" in a PDF viewer.
#include "Pythia8/Pythia.h"
using namespace Pythia8;
//==========================================================================
int main() {
// Generator. Process selection.
Pythia pythia;
pythia.readString("Beams:idB = -2212");
pythia.readString("Beams:eCM = 1960.");
pythia.readString("WeakSingleBoson:ffbar2gmZ = on");
pythia.readString("PhaseSpace:mHatMin = 80.");
pythia.readString("PhaseSpace:mHatMax = 120.");
// Tevatron initialization. Histogram.
// If Pythia fails to initialize, exit with error.
if (!pythia.init()) return 1;
Hist pTZ("dN/dpTZ", 100, 0., 100.);
// Begin event loop. Generate event. Skip if error.
for (int iEvent = 0; iEvent < 1000; ++iEvent) {
if (!pythia.next()) continue;
// Loop over particles in event. Find last Z0 copy. Fill its pT.
int iZ = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < pythia.event.size(); ++i)
if (pythia.event[i].id() == 23) iZ = i;
pTZ.fill( pythia.event[iZ].pT() );
// End of event loop. Statistics. Output normalized histogram.
}
pythia.stat();
pTZ /= 1000;
cout << pTZ;
// Write Python code that can generate a PDF file with the spectrum.
// Use plotFrame when a frame should only contain one histogram.
// Colours and other choices can be omitted, but are shown as illustration.
HistPlot hpl("plot112");
hpl.plotFrame("fig112", pTZ, "Z transverse momentum", "$p_{\\perp}$ (GeV)",
"$\\mathrm{d}N/\\mathrm{d}p_{\\perp}$ (1/GeV)", "-");
// Done
return 0;
}