A first look at the MadGraph 5 and Pythia 8 simulation tools

My project was part of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) design study . The goal of the study is to evaluate the feasibility of constructing the next generation 100 km collider facility with nominal beam energy of 100 TeV. As part of this evaluation, the study aims to determine hardware and software requirements, detectors, and costs for the project. There are three branches of this study (FCC-hh, FCC-eh, and FCC-ee) which focus on different collider facilities that would be housed in the same 100 km tunnel. The FCC-hh is the 100 TeV hadron collider that will define the infrastructure requirements for the project. The FCC-ee is an e+e- collider that would be a first step in the construction of the FCC-hh, and the FCC-eh is an intermediate lepton-hadron collider that is being considered [1]. My project focused on physics of particular interest to the FCC-hh study.