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// main508.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.
// Authors:
// Nishita Desai
// Keywords:
// Basic usage
// BSM
// Supersymmetry
// This is a simple test program.
// It illustrates how to run SUSY processes in Pythia8.
// All input is specified in the main507.cmnd file.
#include "Pythia8/Pythia.h"
using namespace Pythia8;
//==========================================================================
int main() {
// Generator. Shorthand for the event.
Pythia pythia;
Event& event = pythia.event;
// Read in commands from external file.
pythia.readFile("main508.cmnd");
// Extract settings to be used in the main program.
int nEvent = pythia.mode("Main:numberOfEvents");
int nAbort = pythia.mode("Main:timesAllowErrors");
// If Pythia fails to initialize, exit with error.
if (!pythia.init()) return 1;
// Set lifetime of long-lived particle.
int iLLP = 56; // Change to 57 for X+ and 59 for X++
cout << "Lifetime [mm] = " << scientific << pythia.particleData.tau0(iLLP)
<< endl;
// Histograms.
Hist life("Decay lifetime [mm]",100,0.,100.);
// Begin event loop.
int iAbort = 0;
for (int iEvent = 0; iEvent < nEvent; ++iEvent) {
// Generate events. Quit if failure.
if (!pythia.next()) {
event.list();
if (++iAbort < nAbort) continue;
cout << " Event generation aborted prematurely, owing to error!\n";
break;
}
life.fill(event[5].tau());
// End of event loop.
}
// Final statistics and histogram output.
pythia.stat();
cout << life << endl;
return 0;
}