Sherpa Team

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Current members

Enrico Bothmann

  • PostDoc at at Uni Goettingen

  • On-the-fly reweighting, CSShower, framework I/O

Stefan Hoeche

Frank Krauss

  • Overall event generation framework, ME+PS merging, underlying event, hadronization models

  • personal website

Marek Schoenherr

  • PostDoc at IPPP Durham

  • ME+PS merging, NLO, Photon radiation, SUSY decays

Steffen Schumann

Frank Siegert

  • Emmy Noether Group leader at TU Dresden

  • Heavy-flavour production

  • Decays in the hard scattering process and hadron/tau decays

  • ATLAS support

Korinna Zapp

  • PostDoc CERN

  • Minimum Bias, Parton Showers

Former members

Jennifer Archibald

  • Former PhD student (2007-2011)

  • QED subtraction, massive QCD subtraction, SUSY QCD subtraction

  • now at Carpmaels&Ransford

Timo Fischer

  • Former diploma student (2005-2006)

  • Exotic physics models, helicity method for spin 3/2 particles

  • now at Uni Goettingen

Tanju Gleisberg

  • Former diploma and PhD student in Dresden (2002-2007), PostDoc at SLAC (2007-2010)

  • Exotic physics models, phase-space integration, Catani-Seymour subtraction

  • now at ISEG HV

Hendrik Hoeth

  • Former staff member (2008-2013)

  • Hadronization, Minimum Bias, Tuning

Johannes Krause

  • Former PhD student at TU Dresden

  • Prompt photon production and isolation

  • Heavy-flavour production

Ralf Kuhn

Silvan Kuttimalai

  • Former Master student in Goettingen, PhD student in Durham, and PostDoc at SLAC

  • BSM, Comix

Thomas Laubrich

  • Former diploma student in Dresden (2005-2006)

  • Tau decays

  • now at d-fine

Sebastian Liebschner

  • Former PhD student at TU Dresden

  • NLO subtraction and NLO+PS matching for coloured resonances

Radoslaw Matyszkiewicz

  • Former postdoc in Dresden (2005-2007)

  • MHV formalism for matrix elements

Andreas Schaelicke

  • Former diploma and PhD student in Dresden (1999-2005)

  • Parton showers, ME+PS merging

  • now at DESY Zeuthen

Jennifer Thompson

Jan Winter

  • Former PhD student in Dresden, PostDoc at Fermilab, CERN, MPI Munich, MSU

  • Parton Showers, NLO, hadronization models