Welcome to Rivet!

Rivet is a framework for analysing simulated collider events in HepMC format. As well as providing the infrastructure for such analyses, it provides a set of efficient observable calculators and a large collection of standard analyses from a variety of colliders and experiments. Rivet is designed to be an efficient and simple-to-use system for generator validation, tuning, and regression testing.

• To get more details on what Rivet is about, see WhatIsRivet
• To get Rivet installed, see GettingStarted
• To make and plot some analysis data, see FirstRivetRun
• To make your own analysis, see WritingAnAnalysis
• To submit your analysis to Rivet, see SubmittingAnalyses
• To run Rivet on the LCG Grid system, see RivetOnGrid (may be out of date...)

• If you have trouble, please check the TroubleShooting page and then contact the authors at rivet@… (remove the NOSPAM!) if the problems persist.

To identify the responsible parties, see WhoWorksOnRivet.

Details

The important bits:

• RivetAnalysis
• RivetProjections
• RivetHistogramming
• ExternalPackages

Less important things:

• RivetCaching
• RivetHandler
• RivetLogging

Development

Look at the tickets! {3}

Developers should read the DeveloperGuide for a guide to what we're trying to do, and CodingStyleGuide for some code style rules/conventions.

• ListOfAnalyses?
• ReleaseProcedure

• DeveloperGuide
• CodingStyleGuide