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iHixs is a C++ code for computing inclusive Higgs boson production cross sections in gluon fusion.

If you use this code in your publication, please cite arXiv:1802.00827.

1. LHAPDF version 6.*
2. Boost 1.6 or higher (headers only)
3. Cuba 4.2 : a multidimensional numerical integration library

iHixs has been succesfully built with gcc 4.8 and higher, on Linux and Mac OS X systems. With respect to C++ standards, C++11 compliance is required.

note: LHAPDF and Cuba should have been installed on the system with the same compiler as used for ihixs. This is a common source of linking problems on Mac OS, where the native compiler is CLANG LLVM.

You can obtain iHixs from the releases on the github repository,

https://github.com/dulatf/ihixs/releases

or by cloning the repository directly:

git clone https://github.com/dulatf/ihixs.git

Clone the repository or download the release tarball and unzip. Then change create a build subdirectory in the resulting ihixs source directory and run cmake.

cd <ihixs_src_dir>
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

If the dependencies cannot be found automatically run cmake instead as follows

cmake -DLHAPDF_DIR=<lhapdf_main_dir> -DCUBA_DIR_USER=<cuba_dir> -DBOOST_DIR_USER=<boost_dir> ..

If you need to determine a specific set of compilers

      CXX=mygcc CC=mygcc cmake -DLHAPDF_DIR=<lhapdf_main_dir> -DCUBA_DIR_USER=<cuba_dir> -DBOOST_DIR_USER=<boost_dir> ..

The input is controlled by a runcard. An example runcard is available at default.card

    ./ihixs -i myruncard

Available options that can be specified in the runcard can be seen by

    ./ihixs --help

Options can also be set through command line, the gnu way, e.g.

    ./ihixs -i myruncard --mur=63.5

Some of the options have shorthands. For example

    --input_filename myruncard

is equivalent to

    -i myruncard

To see for which options have available shorthands, type

    ./ihixs --help 

and check whether an option has a shorthand after its name, for example

    output_filename [o] 

means that the option output_filename has the shorthand 'o'

• How to run tests : there are several tests integrated in the distribution, within the google test framework (https://github.com/google/googletest). You can run them by typing (from the build)

  src/tests/<name of test> 

  where is any of the binaries in the src/test/ directory. For example

  src/tests/ihixs_eft

  runs several tests related to the higgs eft amplitudes.

• Achilleas Lazopoulos
• Bernhard Mistlberger
• Falko Dulat

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