Resampling Algorithms for High Energy Physics Simulations
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2020-10-28 v1 Computational Physics
Abstract
We demonstrate that the method of interleaved resampling in the context of parton showers can tremendously improve the statistical convergence of weighted parton shower evolution algorithms. We illustrate this by several examples showing significant statistical improvement.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1912.02436,
title = {Resampling Algorithms for High Energy Physics Simulations},
author = {Jimmy Olsson and Simon Plätzer and Malin Sjodahl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.02436},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures