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Cross sections for physical processes that involve very different momentum scales in the same process will involve large logarithms of the ratio of the momentum scales when calculated in perturbation theory. One goal of calculations using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-23 Zoltan Nagy , Davison E. Soper

This article first gives a concise introduction to quantum phase transitions, emphasizing similarities with and differences to classical thermal transitions. After pointing out the computational challenges posed by quantum phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-18 Thomas Vojta

We study kinematic effects due to the approximation of on-shell, collinear partons in shower Monte Carlo event generators. We observe that the collinearity approximation, combined with the requirements of energy-momentum conservation, gives…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 F. Hautmann , H. Jung

These lectures are directed at a level suitable for graduate students in experimental and theoretical High Energy Physics. They are intended to give an introduction to the theory and phenomenology of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) as it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Peter Skands

We extend the previously developed small $x$ parton shower algorithm to include the kinematic constraint effect and $k_t$ resummation effect. This work enables the Monte Carlo generator to simultaneously resum large $k_t$ and small $x$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-11 Yu Shi , Shu-Yi Wei , Jian Zhou

Comparisons of experimental data with theoretical predictions for collider processes containing hadronic jets rely on shower Monte Carlo event generators to include corrections to perturbative calculations from hadronization, parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-15 S. Dooling , P. Gunnellini , F. Hautmann , H. Jung

This paper surveys the field of quantum computer algorithms. It gives a taste of both the breadth and the depth of the known algorithms for quantum computers, focusing on some of the more recent results. It begins with a brief review of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-07 Jamie Smith , Michele Mosca

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are central to modern software development. In large organizations, the high volume of builds and tests creates bottlenecks, especially under shared infrastructure. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Grégory Bournassenko

This is a concise mathematical introduction to Monte Carlo methods, a rich family of algorithms with far-reaching applications in science and engineering. Monte Carlo methods are an exciting subject for mathematical statisticians and…

Computation · Statistics 2024-05-28 Daniel Sanz-Alonso , Omar Al-Ghattas

It is useful to describe a leading order parton shower as the solution of a linear equation that specifies how the state of the partons evolves. This description involves an essential approximation of a strong ordering of virtualities as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-05-29 Zoltan Nagy , Davison E. Soper

This contribution provides brief descriptions the current status of the basic Monte Carlo event generators for top-quark production and decays.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. R. Slabospitsky

Sequential Monte Carlo methods, also known as particle methods, are a popular set of techniques for approximating high-dimensional probability distributions and their normalizing constants. These methods have found numerous applications in…

Computation · Statistics 2021-06-23 Jeremy Heng , Adrian N. Bishop , George Deligiannidis , Arnaud Doucet

We present a general method to match fully differential next-to-next-to-leading (NNLO) calculations to parton shower programs. We discuss in detail the perturbative accuracy criteria a complete NNLO+PS matching has to satisfy. Our method is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Simone Alioli , Christian W. Bauer , Calvin Berggren , Frank J. Tackmann , Jonathan R. Walsh , Saba Zuberi

We summarize the recent progress in a new approach to precision LHC physics based on the IR-improved DGLAP-CS theory as it relates to a new MC friendly exponentiated scheme for precision calculation of higher order corrections to LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-10-07 B. F. L. Ward , S. Joseph , S. Majhi , S. A. Yost

In the usual factorization theorems, which give predictions only for inclusive cross sections, there is considerable freedom in the choice of the scheme to define the parton distribution functions. These theorems do not directly apply to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 John C. Collins , Xiaomin Zu

We investigate the next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) order contributions of the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) for exclusive processes evaluated by Monte Carlo methods. Ambiguities of the Monte Carlo calculation based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-06 Hidekazu Tanaka

In this paper we outline a new parton shower algorithm based on the Catani-Seymour dipole factorization. Our motivation is to have an algorithm which can naturally cooperate with the NLO calculations.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Zoltan Nagy , Davison E. Soper

This article provides an overview of some interfaces between the theory of quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods and applications. We summarize three QMC theoretical settings: first order QMC methods in the unit cube $[0,1]^s$ and in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-30 Frances Y. Kuo , Dirk Nuyens

In this contribution, we will give a brief overview of the progress that has been achieved in the field of combining matrix elements and parton showers. We exemplify this by focusing on the case of electron--positron collisions and by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-26 Jan Winter , Stefan Hoeche , Hendrik Hoeth , Frank Krauss , Marek Schonherr , Steffen Schumann , Frank Siegert , Korinna Zapp

We review GENEVA Monte Carlo framework, that combines three theoretical tools used for QCD precise predictions into a single structure. In this talk we highlight its main features, discussing some new improvements involving both colour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-24 Giulia Marinelli