Monte Carlo event generator for black hole production and decay in proton-proton collisions - QBH version 1.02

Abstract We describe the Monte Carlo event generator for black hole production and decay in proton–proton collisions – QBH version 1.02. The generator implements a model for quantum black hole production and decay based on the conservation of local gauge symmetries and democratic decays. The code in written entirely in C++ and interfaces to the PYTHIA 8 Monte Carlo code for fragmentation and decays. Program summary Program title: QBH Catalogue identifier: AEGU_v1_0 Program summary URL: http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/AEGU_v1_0.html Program obtainable from: CPC Program Library, Queen's University, Belfast, N. Ireland Licensing provisions: Standard CPC licence, http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/licence/licence.html No. of lines in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 10 048 No. of bytes in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 118 420 Distribution format: tar.gz Programming language: C++ Computer: x86 Operating system: Scientific Linux, Mac OS X RAM: 1 GB Classification: 11.6 External routines: PYTHIA 8130 ( http://home.thep.lu.se/~torbjorn/pythiaaux/present.html ) and LHAPDF ( http://projects.hepforge.org/lhapdf/ ) Nature of problem: Simulate black hole production and decay in proton–proton collision. Solution method: Monte Carlo simulation using importance sampling. Running time: Eight events per second.