A Naming Scheme for

FOME Generators Cardfiles

Naming Scheme:

Generic "FOME generator" card name : generator_production_decay_model.comments.cards (Ex: alpgen_b+b+2p_incl_n.n.cards)

Particles Notation:

The rule should always be the shortest yet non-ambiguous production and decay strings

Particle	u,d,s,c,b,t Quarks	Generic light flavor quark	Gluon	Charged Letptons electron, muon, tau	Electron, Muon, Tau Neutrino	Generic Charged Lepton	Generic Neutrino
Symbol	u,d,s,c,b,t	q (stands for u/d/s)	gl	e,mu,tau	nue, numu, nutau	l (stands for e/mu/tau) lep (stands for e/mu)	nu (stands for nue/numu/nutau) nu (stands for nue/numu/nutau)

Particle	u,d,s,c Quarks + Gluon	c,b,t Quarks	u,d,s Quarks + Gluon	u,d,s,c,b,t Quarks + Gluon
Symbol	lpc (light partons + c)	hp (heavy partons)	lp (light partons)	p (parton)

Particle	Graviton	Photon	Z	W	Z'	W'	4th generation Quarks (b',t')
Symbol	grav	gam	z	w	zprime	wprime	bprime, tprime

Particle	LeptoQuark (First, Second and Third Generation)	Randall-Sundrum Graviton	Heavy Higgs	Light Higgs	Pseudo-Scalar Higgs	Charged Higgs	Doubly Charged Higgs
Symbol	lq1, lq2, lq3	rsgrav	hh	hl	ha	hp	hpp

Particle	Gluino	Squark (1st and 2nd generation)	Sbottom i (i in [1,2])	Stop j (j in [1,2])	Chargino j (j in [1-2])	Neutralino i , (i in [1-4])	Gravitino
Symbol	gss or glss	sq (stands for sul/sur/sdl/sdr/ssl/ ssr/scl/scr)	sb1, sb2	st1, st2	wj	zi	gvss or g3_2 or g3hlf

Particle	Selectron, Smuon	Stau i (i in [1,2])	Charged Slepton (1st and 2nd generation)	Sneutrino (1st and 2nd generation)		Hadron	Jet / Jets
Symbol	sel, ser, smul, smur	stau1, stau2	sl (stands for sel/ser/smul/smur)	snuel, snuer, snumul, snumur, snutaul, snutaur		had	j / jets

Particle	Technipions TCpi0, TCpi+, TCpi0'	Technieta TCeta0	Technirhos TCrho0, TCrho+	Techniomega	Excited Quarks d, u	Excited Quarks e, nu_e	4th generation Leptons (tau',nu_tau')
Symbol	techpi0, techpip, techpiprimep	techeta0	techrho0, techrhop	techomega0	dstar, ustar	estar, nuestar	tauprime, nutauprime

Special Cases:

The rule should always be the shortest yet non-ambiguous production and decay strings

Examples:

alpgen_w+1p_e+nue+1p_n.n.cards

Last update: SM 30 Sep 05