Prospino calculates LO (Leading Order) and NLO (Next to Leading Order) SUSY production cross sections.
Useful things to note about Prospino is that it will compute individual cross sections for a particular
SUSY final state pair, with out explicitly summing all contributions for a particular subproccess.
Prospino is slower than Pythia, but it does compute NLO cross sections producing an effective K factor.
Installation of this software is easy.
You just need to change one command in the "Makefile" because the code is f90.
The following talk is short and useful
INSTALLATION AND RUN
Copy and past these commands into your home directory:
mkdir pro2
cd pro2
wget http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~tplehn/prospino/prospino_1_2_06.tar.gz
gunzip *.gz
tar -xvf prospino_1_2_06.tar
vi Makefile
In the Makefile change the compiler, change:
COMP90 = ifc
COMP77 = ifc
Exit out of the Makefile at type
make
(takes good 5 minutes)
./prospino_2.run
This generates a vegas MC routine which ultimately generates
the output data files described in the
get_started txt file
located under the Pro_2doc folder. Here you will find the names of the three output files you have created.
prospino.dat
prospino.dat2
prospino.dat3
If you want to use your own RGE evolved parameter set you can simply drop it into the main directory (called "pro2")
above, and change the file name to prospino.in.les_houches.
In particular, the above file is one I generated with a particular SLHA RGE calulators. Note, I observe that in particular, Prospino2.0 does not like
SUSPECT's common block.... as in one of the .dat output files I created some time ago, I found that the value of tan beta does not register. In the above file I used SPheno for a "random"
point in the mSUGRA parameter space.
To understand the ouput you need to read the actual prospino_main.f90
which is really quite simple to decipher. You can also see page 8 on the second link of this webpage (above).