EVENT GENERATION OF STANDARD MODEL HIGGS DECAY TO DIMUON PAIRS USING PYTHIA SOFTWARE

My project for CERN Summer Student Programme 2015 is on Event Generation of Standard Model Higgs Decay to Dimuon Pairs using Pythia Software. Briefly, Pythia or specifically, Pythia 8.1 is a program for the generation of high-energy Physics events that is able to describe the collisions at any given energies between elementary particles such as Electron, Positron, Proton as well as anti-Proton. It contains theory and models for a number of Physics aspects, including hard and soft interactions, parton distributions, initial-state and final-state parton showers, multiparton interactions, fragmentation and decay. All programming code is to be written in C++ language for this version (the previous version uses FORTRAN) and can be linked to ROOT software for displaying output in form of histogram. For my project, I need to generate events for standard model Higgs Boson into Muon and anti-Muon pairs (H→μ+ μ) to study the expected significance value for this particular process at centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV.