// main42.cc is a part of the PYTHIA event generator. // Copyright (C) 2013 Torbjorn Sjostrand. // PYTHIA is licenced under the GNU GPL version 2, see COPYING for details. // Please respect the MCnet Guidelines, see GUIDELINES for details. // Author: Mikhail Kirsanov, Mikhail.Kirsanov@cern.ch. // This program illustrates how a file with HepMC events can be generated by Pythia8. // Input and output files are specified on the command line, e.g. like // ./main42.exe main42.cmnd hepmcout42.dat > out // The main program contains no analysis; this is intended to happen later. // It therefore "never" has to be recompiled to handle different tasks. // WARNING: typically one needs 25 MB/100 events at the LHC. // Therefore large event samples may be impractical. #include "Pythia.h" #include "HepMCInterface.h" #include "HepMC/GenEvent.h" #include "HepMC/IO_GenEvent.h" using namespace Pythia8; int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { // Check that correct number of command-line arguments if (argc != 3) { cerr << " Unexpected number of command-line arguments. \n You are" << " expected to provide one input and one output file name. \n" << " Program stopped! " << endl; return 1; } // Check that the provided input name corresponds to an existing file. ifstream is(argv[1]); if (!is) { cerr << " Command-line file " << argv[1] << " was not found. \n" << " Program stopped! " << endl; return 1; } // Confirm that external files will be used for input and output. cout << "\n >>> PYTHIA settings will be read from file " << argv[1] << " <<< \n >>> HepMC events will be written to file " << argv[2] << " <<< \n" << endl; // Interface for conversion from Pythia8::Event to HepMC event. HepMC::I_Pythia8 ToHepMC; // Specify file where HepMC events will be stored. HepMC::IO_GenEvent ascii_io(argv[2], std::ios::out); // Generator. Pythia pythia; // Read in commands from external file. pythia.readFile(argv[1]); // Extract settings to be used in the main program. int nEvent = pythia.mode("Main:numberOfEvents"); int nAbort = pythia.mode("Main:timesAllowErrors"); // Initialization. pythia.init(); // Begin event loop. int iAbort = 0; for (int iEvent = 0; iEvent < nEvent; ++iEvent) { // Generate event. if (!pythia.next()) { // If failure because reached end of file then exit event loop. if (pythia.info.atEndOfFile()) { cout << " Aborted since reached end of Les Houches Event File\n"; break; } // First few failures write off as "acceptable" errors, then quit. if (++iAbort < nAbort) continue; cout << " Event generation aborted prematurely, owing to error!\n"; break; } // Construct new empty HepMC event and fill it. // Units will be as chosen for HepMC build, but can be changed // by arguments, e.g. GenEvt( HepMC::Units::GEV, HepMC::Units::MM) HepMC::GenEvent* hepmcevt = new HepMC::GenEvent(); ToHepMC.fill_next_event( pythia, hepmcevt ); // Write the HepMC event to file. Done with it. ascii_io << hepmcevt; delete hepmcevt; // End of event loop. Statistics. } pythia.stat(); // Done. return 0; }