Abstract

We describe the open-source global fitting package GAMBIT: the Global And Modular Beyond-the-Standard-Model Inference Tool. GAMBIT combines extensive calculations of observables and likelihoods in particle and astroparticle physics with a hierarchical model database, advanced tools for automatically building analyses of essentially any model, a flexible and powerful system for interfacing to external codes, a suite of different statistical methods and parameter scanning algorithms, and a host of other utilities designed to make scans faster, safer and more easily-extendible than in the past. Here we give a detailed description of the framework, its design and motivation, and the current models and other specific components presently implemented in GAMBIT. Accompanying papers deal with individual modules and present first GAMBIT results. GAMBIT can be downloaded from gambit.hepforge.org.

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Title
GAMBIT: the global and modular beyond-the-standard-model inference tool
Author
Athron, Peter 1 ; Balazs, Csaba 1 ; Bringmann, Torsten 2 ; Buckley, Andy 3 ; Chrząszcz, Marcin 4 ; Conrad, Jan 5 ; Cornell, Jonathan M 6 ; Dal, Lars A 2 ; Dickinson, Hugh 7 ; Edsjö, Joakim 5 ; Farmer, Ben 5 ; Gonzalo, Tomás E 2 ; Jackson, Paul 8 ; Krislock, Abram 2 ; Kvellestad, Anders 9 ; Lundberg, Johan 5 ; McKay, James 10 ; Mahmoudi, Farvah 11 ; Martinez, Gregory D 12 ; Putze, Antje 13 ; Raklev, Are 2 ; Ripken, Joachim 14 ; Rogan, Christopher 15 ; Saavedra, Aldo 16 ; Savage, Christopher 9 ; Scott, Pat 10   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Seon-Hee Seo 17 ; Serra, Nicola 18 ; Weniger, Christoph 19 ; White, Martin 8 ; Wild, Sebastian 20 

 School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Tera-scale, Australia, 
 Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 
 SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 
 Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland; H. Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland 
 Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, AlbaNova University Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden 
 Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada 
 Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA 
 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Tera-scale, Australia, ; Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia 
 NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden 
10  Department of Physics, Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory, London, UK 
11  Univ Lyon, Univ Lyon 1, ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon UMR5574, Saint-Genis-Laval, France; Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, Geneva 23, Switzerland 
12  Physics and Astronomy Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 
13  LAPTh, Université de Savoie, CNRS, Annecy-le-Vieux, France 
14  Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany 
15  Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA 
16  Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Tera-scale, Australia, ; Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, Centre for Translational Data Science, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia 
17  Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 
18  Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland 
19  GRAPPA, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
20  DESY, Hamburg, Germany 
Pages
1-70
Publication year
2017
Publication date
Nov 2017
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
14346044
e-ISSN
14346052
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2085601760
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