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Update of the Binoth Les Houches Accord for a standard interface between Monte Carlo tools and one-loop programs. (English) Zbl 1348.82005

Summary: We present an update of the Binoth Les Houches Accord (BLHA) to standardise the interface between Monte Carlo programs and codes providing one-loop matrix elements.

MSC:

82-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics
82-08 Computational methods (statistical mechanics) (MSC2010)
65C05 Monte Carlo methods
82B80 Numerical methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (MSC2010)
82C80 Numerical methods of time-dependent statistical mechanics (MSC2010)
81V35 Nuclear physics
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