Introduction
The HepMC package is an object oriented, C++ event record for High Energy Physics Monte Carlo generators and simulation, described in A. Buckley et al., The HepMC3 Event Record Library for Monte Carlo Event Generators (Comput. Phys. Commun. (2020), in press) InSpire record
The original code was written by M. Dobbs and J.B. Hansen, The HepMC C++ Monte Carlo event record for High Energy Physics (Comput. Phys. Commun. 134 (2001) 41). Since the first implementation, the package has undergone several modifications and in particular, the latest HepMC3 series is a completely new re-write using currently available C++11 techniques, and have out-of-the-box interfaces for the widely used in HEP community ROOT and Python.
Further documentation that might be useful for the users of HepMC3 can be found in the following documents:
- E.Bothmann et al., A standard convention for particle-level Monte Carlo event-variation weights InSpire record
- J. Alwall et al., A standard format for Les Houches Event Files InSpire record
Status of releases
The current development effort is concentrated on the HepMC3 series. Users are encouraged to integrate that version in their applications and to provide any feedback they may have. Visit the CERN GitLab repository https://gitlab.cern.ch/hepmc/HepMC3 for more information.
The HepMC2 series development has been essentially stopped and in particular HepMC2.06.x (with the latest being 2.06.11) versions are frozen. Some of the new features of HepMC3 series are now also available in HepMC2.07.x versions, but this should be regarded (for those who need it) as an intermediate step before migrating to HepMC3. Since HepMC3 version 3.1 both HepMC2 and HepMC3 can be installed in the same prefix simultaneously. Finally, HepMC1 series is by now fully deprecated.
Available tarfiles
Development version (updated daily at 3AM): hepmc3-dev.tgz
HepMC3 releases
- HepMC-3.2.7.tar.gz HepMC3-3.2.7 4.Oct.2023
- HepMC-3.2.6.tar.gz HepMC3-3.2.6 Mar.2023
- HepMC-3.2.5.tar.gz HepMC3-3.2.5 22.Feb.2022
- HepMC-3.2.4.tar.gz HepMC3-3.2.4 07.Jul.2021
- HepMC-3.2.3.tar.gz HepMC3-3.2.3 14.Dec.2020
- HepMC-3.2.2.tar.gz HepMC3-3.2.2 10.Jun.2020
- HepMC-3.2.1.tar.gz HepMC3-3.2.1 17.Mar.2020
- HepMC-3.2.0.tar.gz HepMC3-3.2.0 27.Nov.2019
- HepMC-3.1.2.tar.gz HepMC3-3.1.2 23.Aug.2019
HepMC2 releases
- hepmc2.06.11.tgz HepMC2.06.11 10.June.2020
- hepmc2.06.10.tgz HepMC2.06.10 26.July.2019
- hepmc2.07-beta00.tgz HepMC2.07.beta00 19.August.2016
- hepmc2.06.09.tgz HepMC2.06.09 05.June.2012
HepPDT releases
- HepPDT-3.04.01.tar.gz HepPDT-3.04.01
Contact information:
Documentation
- Building instructions
- New features
- Differences between HepMC2 and HepMC3
- HepMC2.06 user manual and reference manual (old documents NOT covering HepMC3)
Links to project-related web-pages
- HepMC3 GitLab repository
- HepMC2 GitLab repository
- HepMC project JIRA instance
- Slides from developers meetings
HepMC3 class diagram
- Note
- Some of the classes and less significant relations omitted for clarity
- The classes related to rootIO, Search engine and LHEF are not shown.
