BCVEGPY: an event generator for hadronic production of the B c meson

Abstract We have written a Fortran program BCVEGPY, which is an event generator for the hadronic production of the B_cmeson through the dominant hard subprocess gg→B_c (B_c *)+b+c̄. To achieve a compact program, we have written the amplitude of the subprocess with the particle helicity technique and made it as symmetric as possible, by decomposing the gluon self couplings and then applying the symmetries. To check the program, various cross sections of the subprocess have been computed numerically a... Title of program: BCVEGPY Catalogue Id: ADTJ_v1_0 Nature of problem Hadronic production of B c meson. Versions of this program held in the CPC repository in Mendeley Data ADTJ_v1_0; BCVEGPY; 10.1016/j.cpc.2004.02.005 ADTJ_v2_0; BCVEGPY; 10.1016/j.cpc.2005.09.008 ADTJ_v2_1; BCVEGPY2.1; 10.1016/j.cpc.2006.07.014 ADTJ_v2_2; BCVEGPY2.1a; 10.1016/j.cpc.2011.08.024 ADTJ_v2_3; BCVEGPY2.2; 10.1016/j.cpc.2015.07.015 This program has been imported from the CPC Program Library held at Queen's University Belfast (1969-2018)