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Shower Monte Carlo event generators have played an important role in particle physics. Modern experiments would hardly be possible without them. In this talk I discuss how QCD physics is incorporated into the mathematical structure of these…

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

Diffusion models enable the synthesis of highly accurate samples from complex distributions and have become foundational in generative modeling. Recently, they have demonstrated significant potential for solving Bayesian inverse problems by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yazid Janati , Alain Durmus , Jimmy Olsson , Eric Moulines

We describe a number of improvements to the GENEVA method for matching NNLO calculations to parton shower programs. In particular, we detail changes to the resummed calculation used in the matching procedure, including disentangling the…

We present results for the Higgsstrahlung process within the GENEVA Monte Carlo framework. We combine the fully differential NNLO calculation with the higher-order resummation in the 0-jettiness resolution variable (beam-thrust). The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-27 Simone Alioli , Alessandro Broggio , Stefan Kallweit , Matthew A. Lim , Luca Rottoli

We present a new Monte-Carlo generator for the simulation of di-jet production in polarized proton-proton collisions at the next-to-leading order in QCD matched to parton showers using the framework of the POWHEG BOX. With this program we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-06 Ignacio Borsa , David Betz , Barbara Jäger

Multiple exciton generation solar cells exhibit a low power conversion efficiency owing to nonradiative recombination even if numerous electron and hole pairs are generated per incident photon. This paper elucidates the non-idealities of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Jongwon Lee

The MC@NLO and MEPS@NLO methods, as implemented in the Monte-Carlo event generator framework Sherpa, are used to estimate the perturbative and non-perturbative uncertainties in various processes such as dijet production and the production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-04 Marek Schonherr , Stefan Hoeche , Frank Krauss , Frank Siegert

The method to merge matrix elements for multi particle production and parton showers in electron-positron annihilations and hadronic collisions and its implementation into the new event generator SHERPA is described in detail. Examples…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Schaelicke , Frank Krauss

The most common way to simplify extensive Monte-Carlo simulations of air showers is to use the thinning approximation. We study its effect on the physical parameters reconstructed from simulated showers. To this end, we have created a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. S. Gorbunov , G. I. Rubtsov , S. V. Troitsky

We propose a method for matching the next-to-leading order (NLO) calculation of a given QCD process with a parton shower Monte Carlo (MC) simulation. The method has the following features: fully exclusive events are generated, with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-11 S. Frixione , B. R. Webber

M-quantile random-effects regression represents an interesting approach for modelling multilevel data when the interest of researchers is focused on the conditional quantiles. When data are based on complex survey designs, sampling weights…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Francesco Schirripa Spagnolo , Nicola Salvati , Antonella D'Agostino , Ides Nicaise

In simulations of partial differential equations using particle-in-cell (PIC) methods, it is often advantageous to resample the particle distribution function to increase simulation accuracy, reduce compute cost, and/or avoid numerical…

We present a method to match the multi-parton states generated by the High Energy Jets Monte Carlo with parton showers generated by the Ariadne program using the colour dipole model. The High Energy Jets program already includes a full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Jeppe R. Andersen , Leif Lonnblad , Jennifer M. Smillie

General-purpose Monte Carlo event generators have become important tools in particle physics, allowing the simulation of exclusive hadronic final states. In this article we examine the Pythia 8 generator, in particular focusing on its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-18 Richard Corke , Torbjörn Sjöstrand

A new method, based on the simulated annealing algorithm and aimed at the inverse problem in the analysis of intergalactic (interstellar) complex spectra of hydrogen and metal lines, is presented. We consider the process of line formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei A. Levshakov , Irina I. Agafonova , Wilhelm H. Kegel

We present a process-independent technique to consistently combine next-to-leading order parton-level calculations of varying jet multiplicity and parton showers. Double counting is avoided by means of a modified truncated shower scheme.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Stefan Hoeche , Frank Krauss , Marek Schonherr , Frank Siegert

We propose an algorithm for molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo simulations that uses an interpolation procedure to estimate potential energy values from energies and gradients evaluated previously at points of a simplicial mesh. We chose an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-07 Konstantin Karandashev , Jiri Vanicek

We report on the implementation of a coherent dipole shower algorithm along with an automated implementation for dipole subtraction and for performing POWHEG- and MC@NLO-type matching to next-to-leading order (NLO) calculations. Both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Simon Platzer , Stefan Gieseke

We present an implementation of electroweak Z-boson production in association with two jets at hadron colliders in the POWHEG framework, a method that allows the interfacing of NLO-QCD calculations with parton-shower Monte Carlo programs.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Barbara Jager , Steven Schneider , Giulia Zanderighi

Parton showers in Monte Carlo event generators reflect to a certain accuracy our understanding of QCD radiation at all orders. For observables sensitive to interjet energy flow in well defined regions of phase space, it has been known for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-06-19 Mrinal Dasgupta