New developments in the Whizard event generator

¹ Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
² Department of Physics, University of Siegen, Walter-Flex-Straße 3, 57068 Siegen, Germany
³ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
⁴ Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, Warszawa, 02-093, Poland
⁵ University of Würzburg, Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Emil-Hilb-Weg 22, 97074 Würzburg, Germany

^* e-mail: juergen.reuter@desy.de
^** e-mail: pia.bredt@uni-siegen.de
^*** e-mail: marius.hoefer@kit.edu
^**** e-mail: kilian@physik.uni-siegen.de
^† e-mail: nils.kreher@uni-siegen.de
^‡ e-mail: maximilian.loeschner@desy.de
^§ e-mail: krzysztof.mekala@desy.de
^¶ e-mail: ohl@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de
^∥ e-mail: tobias.strieglr@uni-siegen.de
^** e-mail: zarnecki@fuw.edu.pl

Published online: 18 December 2024

Abstract

We give a status report on new developments within the Whizard event generator. Important new features comprise NLO electroweak automation (incl. extension to BSM processes like SMEFT), loop-induced processes and new developments in the UFO interface. We highlight work in progress and further plans, such as the implementation of electroweak PDFs, photon radiation, the exclusive top threshold and features for exotic new physics searches.