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We present a novel integrator based on normalizing flows which can be used to improve the unweighting efficiency of Monte-Carlo event generators for collider physics simulations. In contrast to machine learning approaches based on surrogate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Christina Gao , Stefan Hoeche , Joshua Isaacson , Claudius Krause , Holger Schulz

We developed a Monte Carlo event generator for production of nucleon configurations in complex nuclei consistently including effects of Nucleon-Nucleon (NN) correlations. Our approach is based on the Metropolis search for configurations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-14 M. Alvioli , H. -J. Drescher , M. Strikman

We apply Continuous Normalizing Flows trained with the Flow Matching method to the problem of phase-space sampling in Monte Carlo event generation for high-energy collider physics. Focusing on lepton-pair and top quark pair production with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-07 Enrico Bothmann , Timo Janßen , Max Knobbe , Bernhard Schmitzer , Fabian Sinz

A Monte Carlo simulator is presented to reproduce data of nucleus-nucleus interactions at high energies. The program is designed in a microscopic point of view, where the cascade approach is applied. Moreover, each nucleon from both the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. M. Hassan , N. El-Harby , M. T. Hussein

The generation of accurate neutrino-nucleus cross-section models needed for neutrino oscillation experiments require simultaneously the description of many degrees of freedom and precise calculations to model nuclear responses. The detailed…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-07-22 Sebastian Pina-Otey , Federico Sánchez , Thorsten Lux , Vicens Gaitan

In recent years a number of new theoretical models have been implemented into Monte-Carlo neutrino interaction event generators. Being able to compare multiple model predictions is invaluable to the field, especially as it is unfortunately…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-11 P. Stowell , S. Cartwright , L. Pickering , C. Wret , C. Wilkinson

Solving decision problems in complex, stochastic environments is often achieved by estimating the expected outcome of decisions via Monte Carlo sampling. However, sampling may overlook rare, but important events, which can severely impact…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-16 Lachlan Gibson , Marcus Hoerger , Dirk Kroese

The propagation of uncertainties in reaction cross sections and rates of neutron-, proton-, and $\alpha$-induced reactions into the final isotopic abundances obtained in nucleosynthesis models is an important issue in studies of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-24 T. Rauscher

The usage of Monte Carlo neutrino event generators (MC$\nu$EGs) is a norm within the high-energy $\nu$ scattering community. The relevance of quasielastic (QE) energy regimes to $\nu$ oscillation experiments implies that accurate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-10 Joshua L. Barrow , Steven Gardiner , Saori Pastore , Minerba Betancourt , Joseph Carlson

The generation of unit-weight events for complex scattering processes presents a severe challenge to modern Monte Carlo event generators. Even when using sophisticated phase-space sampling techniques adapted to the underlying transition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-18 Katharina Danziger , Timo Janßen , Steffen Schumann , Frank Siegert

This study developed a novel method for detecting hypernuclear events recorded in nuclear emulsion sheets using machine learning techniques. The artificial neural network-based object detection model was trained on surrogate images created…

Hadron cascade model is an essential part of Monte Carlo neutrino event generators that governs final state interactions of knocked-out nucleons and produced pions. It is shown that such model enriched with physically motivated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-09-29 Kajetan Niewczas , Jan T. Sobczyk

Accurate predictions for both signal and background events at the LHC are of paramount importance in order to confirm even the smallest deviations from Standard Model predictions. Next-to-leading order Monte Carlo event generators are an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-30 Carole Weydert

This article proposes an artificial data generating algorithm that is simple and easy to customize. The fundamental concept is to perform random permutation of Monte Carlo generated random numbers which conform to the unconditional…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-02-17 A. Christian Silva , Fernando F. Ferreira

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

Sampling problems are promising candidates for demonstrating quantum advantage, and one approach known as quantum-enhanced Markov chain Monte Carlo [Layden, D. et al., Nature 619, 282-287 (2023)] uses quantum samples as a proposal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Yuya Kawamata , Yuichiro Nakano , Keisuke Fujii

We present a probabilistic, data-driven surrogate model for predicting the radiative properties of nanoparticle embedded scattering media. The model uses conditional normalizing flows, which learn the conditional distribution of optical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-28 Fahime Seyedheydari , Kevin Conley , Simo Särkkä

Subsurface remediation often involves reconstruction of contaminant release history from sparse observations of solute concentration. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), the most accurate and general method for this task, is rarely used in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Zitong Zhou , Daniel M. Tartakovsky

The neutron capture cross section for $^{90}Zr(n, \gamma)$ has recently been determined using surrogate $^{92}Zr(p, d\gamma)$ data and nuclear reaction theory. That work employed an approximate fitting method based on Bayesian Monte Carlo…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-04 Oliver Gorton , Jutta E. Escher

Accurate proton dose calculation using Monte Carlo (MC) is computationally demanding in workflows like robust optimisation, adaptive replanning, and probabilistic inference, which require repeated evaluations. To address this, we develop a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-24 Aaron Pim , Tristan Pryer
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