Rivet user manual

TL;DR

The paper provides a comprehensive manual for the Rivet system, a tool used for validating and tuning Monte Carlo event generators in high energy physics, including usage instructions and development guidance.

Contribution

It offers detailed documentation for Rivet, enabling users to perform validation, develop new analyses, and understand the system's core components and interfaces.

Findings

Extensive user guide for Rivet system.

Instructions for using validation code and creating new analyses.

Details on Rivet's core library and generator interface.

Abstract

This is the manual and user guide for the Rivet system for the validation and tuning of Monte Carlo event generators for high energy physics. As well as the core Rivet library, this manual describes the usage of the rivet program and the AGILe generator interface library. The depth and level of description is chosen for users of the system, starting with the basics of using validation code written by others, and then covering sufficient details to write new Rivet analyses and calculational components.