User Inputs Parton ShowersMatrix Elements Soft Physics The SHERPA 2 . 2 event generator framework

SHERPA is a general-purpose Monte Carlo event generator for the simulation of particle collisions in high-energy collider experiments. We summarise essential features and improvements of the SHERPA 2.2 release series, which is heavily used for event generation in the analysis and interpretation of LHC Run 1 and Run 2 data. We highlight a decade of developments towards ever higher precision in the simulation of particle-collision events. Copyright E. Bothmann et al. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Published by the SciPost Foundation. Received 26-05-2019 Accepted 10-09-2019 Published 18-09-2019 Check for updates doi:10.21468/SciPostPhys.7.3.034