Let's generate some Higgstrahlung events e+e- -> ZH at the 250 GeV ILC. Pythia8 can't do polarized beams, so we'll use MG5_aMC@NLO. First cd to the MG5 directory and open a file called ilc_eetozh.dat. Since our /home directory is almost fulll, let's make a symbolic link to the fast SSD disk, which has 218G available: > cd /home/potter/MG5_aMC_v2_6_1 > mkdir /ssd/potter/mg5amc > ln -s /ssd/potter/mg5amc > emacs ilc_eetozh.dat & Now put somethiing like this code in your file: import model sm generate e+ e- > z h output mg5amc/ilc_eetozh launch shower=Pythia8 set lpp1 0 set lpp2 0 set ebeam1 125 set ebeam2 125 set nevents 100 set iseed 1 Then run! > ./bin/mg5_aMC ilc_eetozh.dat Now copy the .hepmc file to your Delphes directory so we can run anILC detector simulation on it: > cd mg5amc/ilc_eetozh/Events/run_01 > gunzip tag_1_pythia8_events.hepmc.gz > cp tag_1_pythia8_events.hepmc /home/potter/Delphes-3.4.1 > cd /home/potter/Delphes-3.4.1 Thankfully somebody has written a Delphes detector card for SiD using the performance reported in the ILC TDR Volume 4 at https://dsid.hepforge.org/. Follow the directions in the README there and run Delphes using the DSiD card. Browse the events in the Event Display and try to identify the Z decays and the H decays.