diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/physics/sherpa/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/physics/sherpa/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d863964ad90a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/physics/sherpa/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, gfortran, sqlite }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "sherpa-${version}";
+  version = "2.2.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://www.hepforge.org/archive/sherpa/SHERPA-MC-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "13vkz6w8kqyv8sgy3mxnlps5ykml5rnlj50vjj0pp9rgbl5y8ali";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ gfortran sqlite ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Simulation of High-Energy Reactions of PArticles in lepton-lepton, lepton-photon, photon-photon, lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron collisions";
+    license     = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
+    homepage    = https://sherpa.hepforge.org;
+    platforms   = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ veprbl ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index cb9e18bdc393..768a6c0ce11f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -16777,6 +16777,8 @@ in
 
   sacrifice = callPackage ../applications/science/physics/sacrifice {};
 
+  sherpa = callPackage ../applications/science/physics/sherpa {};
+
   ### SCIENCE/PROGRAMMING
 
   plm = callPackage ../applications/science/programming/plm { };