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SOFTSUSY: by Ben Allanach


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This code provides a SUSY spectrum in the MSSM consistent with input low energy data, and a user supplied high energy constraint (eg minmal SUGRA). It is written in C++ with an emphasis on easy generalisability. Full three-family couplings and renormalisation group equations are employed, as well as one-loop finite corrections a la Bagger, Matchev, Pierce and Zhang. It can be used in conjunction with other programs for many different particle physics calculations: see a SUSY tools review.

SOFTSUSY has been used to generate points in the CMSSM that fit current indirect data: you can obtain such points with their properties at the KISMET page.

If you use SOFTSUSY to write a paper, please cite

B.C. Allanach, Comput. Phys. Commun. 143 (2002) 305-331, hep-ph/0104145,

which is the SOFTSUSY manual. The version on the electronic hep-ph/ archive will be updated with more recent versions (since 1.2).

You can run SOFTSUSY for one parameter point checking it against other codes from this web-page. There are detailed comparisons between SOFTSUSY and other publicly available codes in

Installation

To run SOFTSUSY, you should only need standard C++ libraries.

The following releases contain a test program (main.cpp) and the code for the SOFTSUSY library (libsoft.a, link with -lsoft). There is also a Makefile: in linux, just unpack the files with (eg for softsusy2.0)
> gunzip softsusy2.0.tar.gz
> tar -xvf softsusy2.0.tar
then type
> make
The C++ test program is then run by
> ./softpoint.x

or

> ./softsusy.x

Release 2.0.18 21/05/08

Executable files: after installation

Source Files

Contained in the gzipped tarred archive above, but can be obtained seperately here:

Input and info files

Code

Extensions

Non-standard supersymmetry breaking

License

    SOFTSUSY Copyright (C) 2007 B.C. Allanach

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.  

Ben Allanach's homepage:
Official homepage



Ben Allanach B2.04, DAMTP, CMS, University of Cambridge Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1223 766889

Last updated: Thu Oct 23 16:56:30 2008