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Monte Carlo event generators are an essential tool for data analysis in collider physics. To include subleading quantum corrections, these generators often need to produce negative weight events, which leads to statistical dilution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-21 Benjamin Nachman , Jesse Thaler

Event generation with neural networks has seen significant progress recently. The big open question is still how such new methods will accelerate LHC simulations to the level required by upcoming LHC runs. We target a known bottleneck of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Mathias Backes , Anja Butter , Tilman Plehn , Ramon Winterhalder

A simple reweighting scheme is proposed for Monte Carlo simulations of interacting particle systems, permitting one to study various parameter values in a single study, and improving efficiency by an order of magnitude. Unlike earlier…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ronald Dickman

We commonly encounter the problem of identifying an optimally weight adjusted version of the empirical distribution of observed data, adhering to predefined constraints on the weights. Such constraints often manifest as restrictions on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-17 Abhisek Chakraborty , Anirban Bhattacharya , Debdeep Pati

A model for the simulation of orientational effects in straight and bent periodic atomic structures is presented. The continuum potential approximation has been adopted.The model allows the manipulation of particle trajectories by means of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-02 E. Bagli , M. Asai , D. Brandt , A. Dotti , V. Guidi , D. H. Wright

The new simulation for the ATLAS detector at LHC is performed using Geant4 in a complete OO/C++ environment. In this framework the simulation of the various test beams for the different ATLAS subdetectors offers an excellent opportunity to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Dell'Acqua

Whether it is for shielding applications or for safety criticality studies, numerically solving the neutron transport equation with a good accuracy requires to precisely estimate the Doppler broadened elastic scattering kernel in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 M. Zmeškal , L. Thulliez , E. Dumonteil

Precise neutrino energy reconstruction is essential for next-generation long-baseline oscillation experiments, yet current methods remain limited by large uncertainties in neutrino-nucleus interaction modeling. Even so, it is well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Daniel C. Hackett , Shirley Weishi Li , Pedro A. N. Machado , Karla Tame-Narvaez

The proposed work demonstrates the results of creating and investigating the mathematical model of the source of fast neutrons. The model carrier is a computer program developed in the C++ programming language in the Linux operating system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 Tetiana Malykhina , Viktoriia Lisovska , Valentina Shpagina , Ruslan Timchenko

Significant advances in deep learning have led to more widely used and precise neural network-based generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). We introduce a post-hoc correction to deep generative models to further…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Sascha Diefenbacher , Engin Eren , Gregor Kasieczka , Anatolii Korol , Benjamin Nachman , David Shih

The contamination, or background, from uninteresting low-energy strong interactions is a major issue for data analysis at the Large Hadron Collider. In the light of the challenges associated with the upcoming higher-luminosity scenarios,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-08 Federico Colecchia

Theories of new physics often involve a large number of unknown parameters which need to be scanned. Additionally, a putative signal in a particular channel may be due to a variety of distinct models of new physics. This makes experimental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 James S. Gainer , Joseph Lykken , Konstantin T. Matchev , Stephen Mrenna , Myeonghun Park

A R&D project has been recently launched to investigate Geant4 architectural design in view of addressing new experimental issues in HEP and other related physics disciplines. In the context of this project the use of generic programming…

The Geant4 toolkit is the standard for simulating the passage of particles through matter, but its conventional architecture often requires users to modify and recompile C++ code to alter fundamental simulation parameters such as geometry,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-13 Jing Liu

Backscattering is a sensitive probe of the accuracy of electron scattering algorithms implemented in Monte Carlo codes. The capability of the Geant4 toolkit to describe realistically the fraction of electrons backscattered from a target…

Ongoing investigations for the improvement of Geant4 accuracy and computational performance resulting by refactoring and reengineering parts of the code are discussed. Issues in refactoring that are specific to the domain of physics…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Batic , M. Begalli , M. Han , S. Hauf , G. Hoff , C. H. Kim , M. Kuster , M. G. Pia , P. Saracco , H. Seo , G. Weidenspointner , A. Zoglauer

Geant4 is a toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter. It provides a comprehensive set of tools for geometry, tracking, detector response, run, event and track management, visualization and user interfaces.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Koi , M. Asai , D. H. Wright , K. Niita , Y. Nara , K. Amako , T. Sasaki

We describe the architecture and functionalities of a C++ software framework, coined PARTONS, dedicated to the phenomenology of Generalized Parton Distributions. These distributions describe the three-dimensional structure of hadrons in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 B. Berthou , D. Binosi , N. Chouika , L. Colaneri , M. Guidal , C. Mezrag , H. Moutarde , J. Rodríguez-Quintero , F. Sabatié , P. Sznajder , J. Wagner

Using simulations to understand backgrounds from muon-induced neutrons is important in designing next-generation low-background underground experiments. Validation of relevant physics within the Geant4 simulation package has been completed…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 M. G. Marino , J. A. Detwiler , R. Henning , R. A. Johnson , A. G. Schubert , J. F. Wilkerson

We introduce \texttt{Weakhub}, a novel neutrino microphysics library that provides opacities and kernels beyond conventional interactions used in the literature. This library includes neutrino-matter, neutrino-photon, and neutrino-neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-29 Harry Ho-Yin Ng , Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Alan Tsz-Lok Lam , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li