In order to follow the instructions of the tutorials, you have to use a virtual machine that we have already set up for you. The machine makes it easy to access a variety of different tools without requiring you to install them first. The virtual disk contains a Madgraph, Pythia 8, Herwig++ and CheckMATE installation.

 

To run the virtual machine, you have to do the following:

 

1) Install VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org)

 

2) Make sure you have at least 10GB of disk space ready

 

3) Download the Virtual Disk from this link. Since the file is >2GB, this might take a while.

 

4) Unzip the file

 

5) Run Virtual Box

 

6) Click "New"

 

7) Name: "MCschool", OS "Linux Ubuntu 32 bit", Memory >= 1024 MB (Important!)

 

8) "Use existing hard disk" and select the downloaded, unzipped .vdi file. If creation was successfull, select the machine and hit "start". After a while, you should the the virtual machine's desktop.

 

 

 

 

Links:

 

FeynRules 2  (https://feynrules.irmp.ucl.ac.be/)

MadGraph 5  (http://madgraph.hep.uiuc.edu/)

Pythia 8 (http://home.thep.lu.se/~torbjorn/pythia82html/Welcome.html)

CheckMATE (http://checkmate.hepforge.org/)