SHERPA(1)

okay so this is the Sherpa(1) page, bestie — aka the manual for Sherpa, the Monte Carlo event generator. Buckle up, it’s giving “scientific software but make it cute” and we’re keeping every detail. 💅✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

Sherpa — a Monte Carlo event generator. That’s the name section, short and iconic. 👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

okay so the call looks like this, and yes you should copy it exactly if you’re typing it:

Sherpa [-gbvh] [-f file] [-p path]
       [-O level] [-j threads]
       [-e events] [-a analyses] [-A path]
       [-m generators] [-w mode] [-r results]
       [-s shower] [-F module] [-D module]
       [-L path] [-R seed] [-l logfile]
       [PARAMETER1=VALUE1 [PARAMETER2=VALUE2 ... ] ]
       [TAG1:=VALUE1 [TAG2:=VALUE2 ... ] ]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Sherpa is a Monte Carlo event generation framework. periodt. 💖

This manual page contains only the very basic information on the synopsis of Sherpa. The full description is maintained as a TeXinfo manual — that’s where the full lore lives, bestie. 📚✨

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -f file — sets the runcard name to file.
• -p path — sets the run path name to path.
• -e events — sets the number of events to events.
• -r results — sets the result directory name to results.
• -m generators — sets the ME generator list to generators.
• -w mode — sets the event generation mode to mode.
• -s shower — sets the parton shower generator shower.
• -F module — sets the fragmentation module module.
• -D module — sets the decay module module.
• -L path — sets the process library path to path.
• -R seed — sets the random seed to seed.
• -l logfile — sets the log file name to logfile.
• -a analyses — sets the analysis handler list to analyses.
• -A path — sets the analysis output path path.
• -O level — sets the output level level.
• -o level — sets the event output level level.
• -j threads — sets the number of threads threads.
• -g — does not create the result directory.
• -b — switches to non-batch mode.
• -v, --version — prints versioning information.
• -h, --help — prints a short help message.
• PARAMETER=VALUE — sets the value of a parameter.
• TAG:=VALUE — sets the value of a tag.

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🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

This is an example for the first invocation of Sherpa:

Sherpa -p LHC/ -f Run.dat

The program uses run parameter specifications listed in the base file Run.dat residing in the directory LHC. slay. 💫

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🎀 FILES 🎀

Example files are found in the share directory. Go look, bestie. 🫶

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Sherpa was developed by the Sherpa Team, see http://sherpa.hepforge.org. iconic behavior, fr fr. 🌈

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Sherpa is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the source for Sherpa; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

Sherpa is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Sherpa was created during the Marie Curie RTN’s HEPTOOLS and MCnet. The MCnet Guidelines apply, see the file GUIDELINES and http://www.montecarlonet.org/index.php?p=Publications/Guidelines.

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cute little sign-off: the footer says source/version Sherpa and date 22.11.2008, so yeah — this page is a whole time capsule, and we ate. 🍓🧚💖