Speaker
Jonathan Butterworth
(UCL)
Description
Contur (Constraints On New Theories Using Rivet) is a public python package sitting on top of Rivet and Yoda, which allows information on new BSM models to be extracted from particle-level differential cross section measurements from the LHC. BSM events simulated by a general-purpose MC event generator are "signal injected" into the fiducial phase space of hundreds of measurements simultaneously, allowing a rapid scan of a wide range of model parameters and signatures. Contur takes as input the Yoda histograms from Rivet, and so can interoperate with any generator producing HepMC events. However, it also has convenience methods for parameter scanning using Herwig, and is interfaced to the scanning machinery of Madgraph and GAMBIT.
Author
Jonathan Butterworth
(UCL)
