On the maximal use of Monte Carlo samples: re-weighting events at NLO accuracy

Jul 4, 2016
10 pages
Published in:
  • Eur.Phys.J.C 76 (2016) 12, 674
  • Published: Dec 5, 2016
e-Print:
Report number:
  • IPPP-16-55,
  • MCNET-16-25

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Abstract: (Springer)
Accurate Monte Carlo simulations for high-energy events at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, are very expensive, both from the computing and storage points of view. We describe a method that allows to consistently re-use parton-level samples accurate up to NLO in QCD under different theoretical hypotheses. We implement it in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO and show its validation by applying it to several cases of practical interest for the search of new physics at the LHC.
Note:
  • 10 pages
  • quantum chromodynamics: correction
  • higher-order: 1
  • effective field theory
  • numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
  • programming
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • CERN Lab
  • new physics
  • p p --> Z0 W
  • p p --> Higgs particle jet