! main87.cmnd.
! This file contains commands to be read in for a Pythia8 run. 
! Lines not beginning with a letter or digit are comments.

// Number of events generated
Main:numberOfEvents		    = 1000

// Shower options
HadronLevel:all           = on
PartonLevel:MPI           = on

// Core process for merging
Merging:Process           = pp>LEPTONS,NEUTRINOS

// Maximal number of additional LO jets.
Merging:nJetMax           = 2
// Maximal number of additional NLO jets.
Merging:nJetMaxNLO        = 1

// Merging scale value.
Merging:TMS               = 15

// Values of (fixed) scales in the matrix element calculation.
Merging:muFacInME         = 80.4
Merging:muRenInME         = 91.188
// Values of (fixed) scales for the PS lowest multiplicity process.
Merging:muFac             = 80.4
Merging:muRen             = 91.188

// Include PDFs into the choice of histories.
Merging:includeRedundant  = on

// Switch off enforced rapidity ordering
SpaceShower:rapidityOrder = off

// Since NL3 is a next-to-leading order merging method, next-to-leading
// order PDFs are necessary. However, the parton shower and multiparton
// interactions favour leading-order PDFs, since multiparton interactions 
// probe the incoming hadron at small momentum scales. Until a NLO-merged
// tune becomes available, NLO PDFs should be used throughout.
// Example PDF files generated with CTEQ6M PDFs.
PDF:useLHAPDF             = on
PDF:LHAPDFset             = cteq6m.LHpdf
SpaceShower:alphaSvalue   = 0.118
TimeShower:alphaSvalue    = 0.118