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2 | \section{Changes in Recent Versions} | |
3 | ||
4 | This section contains a record of changes in recently released | |
5 | versions of ISAJET, taken from the memoranda distributed to users. | |
6 | Note that the released version numbers are not necessarily consecutive. | |
7 | ||
8 | \subsection{Version~7.51, May 2000} | |
9 | ||
10 | Several improvements in the SUSY RGE's have been made. All | |
11 | two-loop terms including both gauge and Yukawa couplings and the | |
12 | contributions from right-handed neutrinos are now included. There is a | |
13 | new keyword \verb|SSBCSC| to specify a scale other than the GUT scale | |
14 | for the RGE boundary conditions. | |
15 | ||
16 | The process $Z+\gamma$ is now included in \verb|WPAIR|. (This | |
17 | was omitted because it has no contribution from triple gauge boson | |
18 | couplings.) | |
19 | ||
20 | An incorrect type declaration produced unphysical results for | |
21 | beamsstrahlung on some computers. This has been fixed. While the bug is | |
22 | serious for $e^+e^-$ with the \verb|EEBEAM| option, it has no effect on | |
23 | other processes. Some other minor bugs have also been fixed. | |
24 | ||
25 | \subsection{Version~7.47, December 1999} | |
26 | ||
27 | There are several improvements in the treatment of | |
28 | supersymmetry. The Anomaly Mediated SUSY Breaking model of of Randall | |
29 | and Sundrum and of Gherghetta, Giudice, and Wells (hep-ph/9904378) has | |
30 | been added. The parameters of the model are a universal scalar mass | |
31 | $m_0$ at the GUT scale, a gravitino mass $m_{3/2}$, and the usual | |
32 | $\tan\beta$ and $\sgn\mu$. These are set by the \verb|AMSB| keyword. The | |
33 | renormalization group equations have been extended to include two-loop | |
34 | Yukawa terms and right-handed sneutrinos (with default masses above the | |
35 | Planck scale). The $\tilde\nu_R$ play a role in the evolution for the | |
36 | inverted hierarchy models of Bagger, Feng, and Polonsky, hep-ph/9905292. | |
37 | SUSY loop corrections to Yukawa couplings have been incorporated in the | |
38 | SUSY mass calculations. | |
39 | ||
40 | The Helas library of Murayama, Watanabe, and Hagiwara has been | |
41 | incorporated together with a simple multi-body phase space generator. | |
42 | This makes it possible to use code generated by MadGraph to produce | |
43 | multi-body hard scattering processes. As a first example, a \verb|ZJJ| | |
44 | process that generates $Z + \hbox{2 jets}$ has been added, with the $Z$ | |
45 | treated as a narrow resonance. Additional processes may be added in | |
46 | future releases. | |
47 | ||
48 | A new \verb|EXTRADIM| process has been added to generate | |
49 | Kaluza-Klein graviton production in association with a jet or photon in | |
50 | models with extra dimensions at the TeV scale. The cross sections are | |
51 | from G.F.Giudice et al., hep-ph/9811291. We thank I. Hinchliffe and L. | |
52 | Vacavant for providing this. | |
53 | ||
54 | A number of bugs have been fixed, including in particular one in | |
55 | the decay $\widetilde W_i \to \widetilde Z_j \tau \nu$. | |
56 | ||
57 | \subsection{Version~7.44, April 1999} | |
58 | ||
59 | A serious bug introduced in Version~7.42 that could lead to | |
60 | matrix elements being stored for the wrong mode has been corrected. | |
61 | Some sign errors in the matrix elements for gaugino decays have also | |
62 | been corrected. | |
63 | ||
64 | \subsection{Version~7.42, January 1999} | |
65 | ||
66 | Beginning with this version, matrix elements are taken into | |
67 | account in the event generator as well as in the calculation of decay | |
68 | widths for MSSM three-body decays of the form $\tilde A \to \tilde B f | |
69 | \bar f$, where $\tilde A$ and $\tilde B$ are gluinos, charginos, or | |
70 | neutralinos. This is implemented by having ISASUSY save the poles and | |
71 | their couplings when calculating the decay width and then using these | |
72 | to reconstruct the matrix element. Other three-body decays may be | |
73 | included in the future. Decays selected with \verb|FORCE| use the | |
74 | appropriate matrix elements. | |
75 | ||
76 | As part of the changes to implement these matrix elements, the | |
77 | format of the decay table has changed. It now starts with a header | |
78 | line; if this does not match the internal version, then a warning is | |
79 | printed. The decay table now includes an index MELEM that specifies the | |
80 | matrix element to be used for all processes. This is also used for | |
81 | \verb|FORCE| decays and is printed on the run listing for them. SUSY | |
82 | 3-body decays have internally generated negative values of MELEM. | |
83 | ||
84 | This version also includes both initial state radiation and | |
85 | beamstrahlung for $e^+e^-$ interactions. For initial state radiation | |
86 | (bremsstrahlung), if the \verb|EEBREM| keyword is selected, an electron | |
87 | structure function will be used. For a convolution of both | |
88 | bremsstrahlung and beamstrahlung, the keyword \verb|EEBEAM| must be | |
89 | used, with appropriate inputs (see documentation). | |
90 | ||
91 | \subsection{Version~7.40, October 1998} | |
92 | ||
93 | A new process WHIGGS generates $W^\pm+H$ and $Z+H$ events for | |
94 | both the Standard Model and SUSY models and also Higgs pair production | |
95 | for SUSY models. The types and $W$ decay modes are selected with | |
96 | JETTYPE and WMODE as for WPAIR events. This process is of particular | |
97 | interest for producing fairly light Higgs bosons at the Tevatron. See | |
98 | the documentation for more details. | |
99 | ||
100 | Some non-minimal GMSB models can be generated using a new | |
101 | keyword GMSB2. The optional parameters are an extra factor between the | |
102 | gaugino and scalar masses, shifts in the Higgs masses, a $D$-term | |
103 | proportional to hypercharge, and independent numbers of messenger | |
104 | fields for the three gauge groups. The documentation gives more | |
105 | details and references. | |
106 | ||
107 | The default for SUGRA models has been changed to use | |
108 | $\alpha_s(M_Z)=0.118$, the experimental value. This means that the | |
109 | couplings do not exactly unify at the GUT scale, presumably because of | |
110 | the effects of heavy particles. The keyword AL3UNI can be used to | |
111 | select exact unification, which produces too large a value for | |
112 | $\alpha_s(M_Z)$. | |
113 | ||
114 | A number of three-body slepton decays that occur through | |
115 | left-right mixing are now included. These are obviously small but | |
116 | might compete with gravitino decays. In particular, a decay like | |
117 | $\tilde\mu_R \to \tilde\tau_1 \nu\bar\nu$ might lead to a wrong | |
118 | momentum measurement in the muon system. So far we have found no case | |
119 | in which this is probable. | |
120 | ||
121 | The new release also includes a separate Unix tar file | |
122 | \verb|mcpp.tar| containing C++ code to read a standard ISAJET output | |
123 | file and copy all the information into C++ classes. The tar file | |
124 | contains makefiles for Software Release Tools, documentation, and | |
125 | examples as well as the code. | |
126 | ||
127 | \subsection{Version~7.37, April 1998} | |
128 | ||
129 | Version~7.37 incorporates Gauge Mediated SUSY Breaking models | |
130 | for the first time. In these models, SUSY is broken in a hidden sector | |
131 | at a relatively low scale, and the masses of the MSSM fields are then | |
132 | produced through ordinary gauge interactions with messenger fields. | |
133 | The parameters of the GMSB model in ISAJET are $M_m$, the messenger | |
134 | mass scale; $\Lambda_m = F_m/M_m$, where $F_m$ is the SUSY breaking | |
135 | scale in the messenger sector; $N_5$, the number of messenger fields; | |
136 | the usual $\tan\beta$ and $\sgn\mu$; and $C_{\rm grav} \ge 1$, a | |
137 | factor which scales the gravitino mass and hence the lifetime for the | |
138 | lightest MSSM particle to decay into it. | |
139 | ||
140 | GMSB models have a light gravitino $\tilde G$ as the lightest | |
141 | SUSY particle. The phenomenology of the model depends mainly on the | |
142 | nature of the next lightest SUSY particle, a $\tilde\chi_1^0$ or a | |
143 | $\tilde\tau_1$, which changes with the number $N_5$ of messengers. The | |
144 | phenomenology also depends on the lifetime for the $\tilde\chi_1^0 \to | |
145 | \tilde G \gamma$ or $\tilde\tau_1 \to \tilde G \tau$ decay; this | |
146 | lifetime can be short or very long. All the relevant decays are | |
147 | included except for $\tilde\mu \to \nu \nu \tilde\tau_1$, which is very | |
148 | suppressed. | |
149 | ||
150 | The keyword MGVTNO allows the user to independently input a | |
151 | gravitino gravitino mass for the MSSM option. This allows studies of | |
152 | SUGRA (or other types) of models where the gravitino is the LSP. | |
153 | ||
154 | Version~7.37 also contains an extension of the SUGRA model | |
155 | with a variety of non-universal gaugino and sfermion masses and $A$ | |
156 | terms at the GUT scale. This makes it possible to study, for example, | |
157 | how well the SUGRA assumptions can be tested. | |
158 | ||
159 | Two significant bugs have also been corrected. The decay modes | |
160 | for $B^*$ mesons were missing from the decay table since Version~7.29 | |
161 | and have been restored. A sign error in the interference term for | |
162 | chargino production has been corrected, leading to a larger chargino | |
163 | pair cross section at the Tevatron. | |
164 | ||
165 | \subsection{Version 7.32, November 1997} | |
166 | ||
167 | This version makes several corrections in various chargino and | |
168 | neutralino widths, thus changing the branching ratios for large | |
169 | $\tan\beta$. For $\tilde\chi_2^0$, for example, the $\tilde\chi_1^0 | |
170 | b\bar b$ branching ratio is decreased significantly, while the | |
171 | $\tilde\chi_1^0 \tau^+ \tau^-$ one is increased. Thus the SUGRA | |
172 | phenomenology for $\tan\beta \sim 30$ is modified substantially. | |
173 | ||
174 | The new version also fixes a few bugs, including a possible | |
175 | numerical precision problem in the Drell-Yan process at high mass and | |
176 | $q_T$. It also includes a missing routine for the Zebra interface. | |
177 | ||
178 | \subsection{Version 7.31, August 1997} | |
179 | ||
180 | Version fixes a couple of bugs in Version~7.29. In | |
181 | particular, the JETTYPE selection did not work correctly for | |
182 | supersymmetric Higgs bosons, and there was an error in the interactive | |
183 | interface for MSSM input. Since these could lead to incorrect results, | |
184 | users should replace the old version. We thank Art Kreymer for finding | |
185 | these problems. | |
186 | ||
187 | Since top quarks decay before they have time to hadronize, | |
188 | they are now put directly onto the particle list. Top hadrons ($t\bar | |
189 | u$, $t\bar d$, etc.) no longer appear, and FORCE should be used | |
190 | directly for the top quark, i.e. | |
191 | \begin{verbatim} | |
192 | FORCE | |
193 | 6,11,-12,5/ | |
194 | \end{verbatim} | |
195 | ||
196 | The documentation has been converted to LaTeX. Run either | |
197 | LaTeX~2.09 or LaTeX~2e three times to resolve all the forward | |
198 | references. Either US (8.5x11 inch) or A4 size paper can be used. | |
199 | ||
200 | \subsection{Version 7.30, July 1997} | |
201 | ||
202 | This version fixes a couple of bugs in the previous version. | |
203 | In particular, the JETTYPE selection did not work correctly for | |
204 | supersymmetric Higgs bosons, and there was an error in the interactive | |
205 | interface for MSSM input. Since these could lead to incorrect results, | |
206 | users should replace the old version. We thank Art Kreymer for finding | |
207 | these problems. | |
208 | ||
209 | Since top quarks decay before they have time to hadronize, | |
210 | they are now put directly onto the particle list. Top hadrons ($t\bar | |
211 | u$, $tud$, etc.) no longer appear, and FORCE should be used directly | |
212 | for the top quark, i.e. | |
213 | \begin{verbatim} | |
214 | FORCE | |
215 | 6,11,-12,5/ | |
216 | \end{verbatim} | |
217 | ||
218 | The documentation has been converted to \LaTeX. Run either | |
219 | \LaTeX~2.09 or \LaTeX~2e three times to resolve all the forward | |
220 | references. Either US ($8.5\times11$~inch) or A4 size paper can be | |
221 | used. | |
222 | ||
223 | \subsection{Version 7.29, May 1997} | |
224 | ||
225 | While the previous version was applicable for large as well as | |
226 | small $\tan\beta$, it did contain approximations for the 3-body decays | |
227 | $\tilde g \to t \bar b \tilde W_i$, $\tilde Z_i \to b \bar b \tilde | |
228 | Z_j, \tau \tau \tilde Z_j$, and $\tilde W_i \to \tau \nu \tilde Z_j$. | |
229 | The complete tree-level calculations for three body decays of the | |
230 | gluino, chargino and neutralino, with all Yukawa couplings and | |
231 | mixings, have now been included (thanks mainly to M. Drees). We have | |
232 | compared our branching ratios with those calculated by A.~Bartl and | |
233 | collaborators; the agreement is generally good. | |
234 | ||
235 | The decay patterns of gluinos, charginos and neutralinos may | |
236 | differ from previous expectations if $\tan\beta$ is large. In | |
237 | particular, decays into $\tau$'s and $b$'s are often enhanced, while | |
238 | decays into $e$'s and $\mu$'s are reduced. It could be important for | |
239 | experiments to study new types of signatures, since the cross sections | |
240 | for conventional signatures may be considerably reduced. | |
241 | ||
242 | We have also corrected several bugs, including a fairly | |
243 | serious one in the selection of jet types for SUSY Higgs. We thank | |
244 | A.~Kreymer for pointing this out to us. | |
245 | ||
246 | \subsection{Version 7.27, January 1997} | |
247 | ||
248 | The new version contains substantial improvements in the | |
249 | treatment of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) and the | |
250 | SUGRA model. The squarks of the first two generations are no longer | |
251 | assumed to be degenerate. The mass splittings and all the two-body | |
252 | decay modes are now correctly calculated for large $\tan\beta$. While | |
253 | there are still some approximations for three-body modes, ISAJET is | |
254 | now usable for the whole range $1 \simle \tan\beta \simle M_t/M_b$. The | |
255 | most interesting new feature for large $\tan\beta$ is that third | |
256 | generation modes can be strongly enhanced or even completely dominant. | |
257 | ||
258 | To accomodate these changes it was necessary to change the | |
259 | MSSM input parameters. To avoid confusion, the MSSM keywords have | |
260 | been renamed MSSM[A-C] instead of MSSM[1-3], and the order of the | |
261 | parameters has been changed. See the input section of the manual for | |
262 | details. | |
263 | ||
264 | Treatment of the MSSM Higgs sector has also been improved. In | |
265 | the renormalization group equations the Higgs couplings are frozen at | |
266 | a higher scale, $Q = \sqrt{M(\tilde t_L)M(\tilde t_R)}$. Running | |
267 | $t$, $b$ and $\tau$ masses evaluated at that scale are used to | |
268 | reproduce the dominant 2-loop effects. There is some sensitivity to | |
269 | the choice of $Q$; our choice seems to give fairly stable results over | |
270 | a wide range of parameters and reasonable agreement with other | |
271 | calculations. In particular, the resulting light Higgs masses are | |
272 | significantly lower than those from Version~7.22. | |
273 | ||
274 | The default parton distributions have been updated to CTEQ3L. | |
275 | A bug in the PDFLIB interface and other minor bugs have been fixed. | |
276 | ||
277 | \subsection{Version 7.22, July 1996} | |
278 | ||
279 | The new version fixes errors in $\tilde b \to \tilde W t$ and in | |
280 | some $\tilde t$ decays and Higgs decays. It also contains a new decay | |
281 | table with updated $\tau$, $c$, and $b$ decays, based loosely on the | |
282 | QQ decay package from CLEO. The updated decays are less detailed than | |
283 | the full CLEO QQ program but an improvement over what existed before. | |
284 | The new decays involve a number of additional resonances, including | |
285 | $f_0(980)$, $a_1(1260)$, $f_2(1270)$, $K_1(1270)$, $K_1^*(1400)$, | |
286 | $K_2^*(1430)$, $\chi_{c1,2,3}$, and $\psi(2S)$, so users may have to | |
287 | change their interface routines. | |
288 | ||
289 | A number of other small bugs have been corrected. | |
290 | ||
291 | \subsection{Version 7.20, June 1996} | |
292 | ||
293 | The new version corrects both errors introduced in Version~7.19 | |
294 | and longstanding errors in the final state QCD shower algorithm. It | |
295 | also includes the top mass in the cross sections for $g b \to W t$ and | |
296 | $g t \to Z t$. When the $t$ mass is taken into account, the process $g | |
297 | t \to W b$ can have a pole in the physical region, so it has been | |
298 | removed; see the documentation for more discussion. | |
299 | ||
300 | Steve Tether recently pointed out to us that the anomalous | |
301 | dimension for the $q \to q g$ branching used in the final state QCD | |
302 | branching algorithm was incorrect. In investigating this we found an | |
303 | additional error, a missing factor of $1/3$ in the $g \to q \bar q$ | |
304 | branching. The first error produces a small but non-negligible | |
305 | underestimate of gluon radiation from quarks. The second overestimates | |
306 | quark pair production from gluons by about a factor of 3. In | |
307 | particular, this means that backgrounds from heavy quarks $Q$ coming | |
308 | from $g \to Q \bar Q$ have been overestimated. | |
309 | ||
310 | The new version also allows the user to set arbitrary masses | |
311 | for the $U(1)$ and $SU(2)$ gaugino mases in the MSSM rather than | |
312 | deriving these from the gluino mass using grand unification. This | |
313 | could be useful in studying one of the SUSY interpretations of a CDF | |
314 | $ee\gamma\gamma\etmiss$ event recently suggested by Ambrosanio, Kane, | |
315 | Kribs, Martin and Mrenna. Note, however, that radiative decay are | |
316 | {\it not} included, although the user can force them and multiply by | |
317 | the appropriate branching ratios calculated by Haber and Wyler, | |
318 | Nucl.{} Phys.{} B323, 267 (1989). No explicit provision for the decay | |
319 | $\tilde Z_1 \to \tilde G \gamma$ of the lightest zino into a gravitino | |
320 | or goldstino and a photon has been made, but forcing the decay $\tilde | |
321 | Z_1 \to \nu\gamma$ has the same effect for any collider detector. | |
322 | ||
323 | A number of other minor bugs have also been corrected. | |
324 | ||
325 | \subsection{Version 7.16, October 1995} | |
326 | ||
327 | The new version includes $e^+e^-$ cross sections for both SUSY | |
328 | and Standard Model particles with polarized beams. The $e^-$ and $e^+$ | |
329 | polarizations are specified with a new keyword EPOL. Polarization | |
330 | appears to be quite useful in studying SUSY particles at an $e^+e^-$ | |
331 | collider. | |
332 | ||
333 | The new release also includes some bug fixes for $pp$ reactions, | |
334 | so you should upgrade even if you do not plan to use the polarized | |
335 | $e^+e^-$ cross sections. | |
336 | ||
337 | \subsection{Version 7.13, September 1994} | |
338 | ||
339 | Version 7.13 of ISAJET fixes a bug that we introduced in the | |
340 | recently released 7.11 and another bug in $\tilde g \to \tilde q \bar | |
341 | q$. We felt it was essential to fix these bugs despite the | |
342 | proliferation of versions. | |
343 | ||
344 | The new version includes the cross sections for the $e^+e^-$ | |
345 | production of squarks, sleptons, gauginos, and Higgs bosons in Minimal | |
346 | Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) or the minimal supergravity | |
347 | (SUGRA) model, including the effects of cascade decays. To generate | |
348 | such events, select the \verb|E+E-| reaction type and either SUGRA or | |
349 | MSSM, e.g., | |
350 | \begin{verbatim} | |
351 | SAMPLE E+E- JOB | |
352 | 300.,50000,10,100/ | |
353 | E+E- | |
354 | SUGRA | |
355 | 100,100,0,2,-1/ | |
356 | TMASS | |
357 | 170,-1,1/ | |
358 | END | |
359 | STOP | |
360 | \end{verbatim} | |
361 | The effects of spin correlations in the production and decay, e.g., in | |
362 | $e^+e^- \to \widetilde W_1^+ \widetilde W_1^-$, are not included. | |
363 | ||
364 | It should be noted that the Standard Model $e^+e^-$ generator in | |
365 | ISAJET does not include Bhabba scattering or $W^+W^-$ and $Z^0Z^0$ | |
366 | production. Also, its hadronization model is cruder than that | |
367 | available in some other generators. | |
368 | ||
369 | \subsection{Version 7.11, September 1994} | |
370 | ||
371 | The new version includes the cross sections for the $e^+e^-$ | |
372 | production of squarks, sleptons, gauginos, and Higgs bosons in Minimal | |
373 | Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) or the minimal supergravity | |
374 | (SUGRA) model including the effects of cascade decays. To generate | |
375 | such events, select the \verb|E+E-| reaction type and either SUGRA or | |
376 | MSSM, e.g., | |
377 | \begin{verbatim} | |
378 | SAMPLE E+E- JOB | |
379 | 300.,50000,10,100/ | |
380 | E+E- | |
381 | SUGRA | |
382 | 100,100,0,2,-1/ | |
383 | TMASS | |
384 | 170,-1,1/ | |
385 | END | |
386 | STOP | |
387 | \end{verbatim} | |
388 | The effects of spin correlations in the production and decay, e.g., in | |
389 | $e^+e^- \to \widetilde W_1^+ \widetilde W_1^-$, are not included. | |
390 | ||
391 | It should be noted that the Standard Model $e^+e^-$ generator in | |
392 | ISAJET does not include Bhabba scattering or $W^+W^-$ and $Z^0Z^0$ | |
393 | production. Also, its hadronization model is cruder than that | |
394 | available in some other generators. | |
395 | ||
396 | \subsection{Version 7.10, July 1994} | |
397 | ||
398 | This version adds a new option that solves the renormalization group | |
399 | equations to calculate the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) | |
400 | parameters in the minimal supergravity (SUGRA) model, assuming only that the | |
401 | low energy theory has the minimal particle content, that electroweak | |
402 | symmetry is radiatively broken, and that R-parity is conserved. The minimal | |
403 | SUGRA model has just four parameters, which are taken to be the common | |
404 | scalar mass $m_0$, the common gaugino mass $m_{1/2}$, the common trilinear | |
405 | SUSY breaking term $A_0$, all defined at the GUT scale, and $\tan\beta$; the | |
406 | sign of $\mu$ must also be given. The renormalization group equations are | |
407 | solved iteratively using Runge-Kutta integration including the correct | |
408 | thresholds. This program can be used either alone or as part of the event | |
409 | generator. In the latter case, the parameters are specified using | |
410 | \begin{verse} | |
411 | SUGRA\\ | |
412 | $m_0$, $m_{1/2}$, $A_0$, $\tan\beta$, $\sgn\mu$ | |
413 | \end{verse} | |
414 | While the SUGRA option is less general than the MSSM, it is theoretically | |
415 | attractive and provides a much more managable parameter space. | |
416 | ||
417 | In addition there have been a number of improvements and bug fixes. An | |
418 | occasional infinite loop in the minimum bias generator has been fixed. A few | |
419 | SUSY cross sections and decay modes and the JETTYPE flags for SUSY | |
420 | particles have been corrected. The treatment of $B$ baryons has been | |
421 | improved somewhat. | |
422 | ||
423 | \end{document} |