Monte Carlo event generator validation and tuning for the LHC
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-11-18 v2
Abstract
We summarise the motivation for, and the status of, the tools developed by CEDAR/MCnet for validating and tuning Monte Carlo event generators for the LHC against data from previous colliders. We then present selected preliminary results from studies of event shapes and hadronisation observables from e+e- colliders, and of minimum bias and underlying event observables from the Tevatron, and comment on the approach needed with early LHC data to best exploit the potential for new physics discoveries at the LHC in the next few years.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0902.4403,
title = {Monte Carlo event generator validation and tuning for the LHC},
author = {Andy Buckley and Hendrik Hoeth and Holger Schulz and Jan Eike von Seggern},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.4403},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Prepared for Proceedings of XII Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, November 3-7 2008, Erice, Italy