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We extend approximate next-to-next-to-leading order results for top-pair production to include the semi-leptonic decays of top quarks in the narrow-width approximation. The new hard-scattering kernels are implemented in a fully differential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Broggio , A. S. Papanastasiou , A. Signer

Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for exponential family models with intractable normalizing constant, such as the exchange algorithm, require simulations of the sufficient statistics at every iteration of the Markov chain, which often…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-21 Quan Vu , Matthew T. Moores , Andrew Zammit-Mangion

This article provides an introduction to the principles of particle physics event generators that are based on the Monte Carlo method. Following some preliminaries, instructions on how to build a basic parton-level Monte Carlo event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-16 Andreas Papaefstathiou

We design generative neural networks that generate Monte Carlo configurations with complete absence of autocorrelation from which only short Markov chains are needed before making measurements for physical observables, irrespective of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-25 Hongyu Lu , Chuhao Li , Bin-Bin Chen , Wei Li , Yang Qi , Zi Yang Meng

Event simulation for electron neutrino interactions plays a foundational role in precision measurements in particle physics experiments, yet the computational demand of traditional Monte Carlo methods remains a significant challenge,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Dipthi S. , Kalyani Desikan

We present a Cross-Entropy based population Monte Carlo algorithm. This methods stands apart from previous work in that we are not optimizing a mixture distribution. Instead, we leverage deterministic mixture weights and optimize the…

Computation · Statistics 2022-02-09 Caleb Miller , Jem N. Corcoran , Michael D. Schneider

The AcerMC Monte Carlo generator is dedicated to the generation of Standard Model background processes which were recognised as critical for the searches at LHC, and generation of which was either unavailable or not straightforward so far.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-15 Borut Paul Kersevan , Elzbieta Richter-Was

Monte Carlo simulations are an essential tool in particle physics data analysis. Events are typically generated alongside weights that redistribute the cross section of the simulated process across the phase space. These weights can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Benjamin Nachman , Dennis Noll

Critical slowing down and topological freezing severely hinder Monte Carlo sampling of lattice field theories as the continuum limit is approached. Recently, significant progress has been made in applying a class of generative machine…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-01-25 Gurtej Kanwar

Accounting for inaccuracies in Monte Carlo simulations is a crucial step in any high energy physics analysis. It becomes especially important when training machine learning models, which can amplify simulation inaccuracies and introduce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-29 Samuel Bright-Thonney , Philip Harris , Patrick McCormack , Simon Rothman

We propose sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods for sampling the posterior distribution of state-space models under highly informative observation regimes, a situation in which standard SMC methods can perform poorly. A special case is…

Computation · Statistics 2015-07-10 Pierre Del Moral , Lawrence M. Murray

We present a new Monte Carlo generator for Direct top and Single top production via flavour-changing neutral currents (FCNC). This new tool calculates the cross section and generates events with Next-to-Leading order precision for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-25 Rita Coimbra , António Onofre , Rui Santos , Miguel Won

Techniques for approximately contracting tensor networks are limited in how efficiently they can make use of parallel computing resources. In this work we demonstrate and characterize a Monte Carlo approach to the tensor network…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-12 William Huggins , C. Daniel Freeman , Miles Stoudenmire , Norm M. Tubman , K. Birgitta Whaley

A general synthetic iterative scheme is proposed to solve the Enskog equation within a Monte Carlo framework. The method demonstrates rapid convergence by reducing intermediate Monte Carlo evolution and preserves the asymptotic-preserving…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-26 Bin Hu , Liyan Luo , Lei Wu

We develop a classical Monte Carlo algorithm based on a quasi-classical approximation for a pseudospin S=1 Hamiltonian in real space to construct a phase diagram of a model cuprate with a high Tc. A model description takes into account both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-25 Yu. D. Panov , A. S. Moskvin , A. A. Chikov , V. A. Ulitko

Monte Carlo evaluation is used to calculate heavy-ion elastic scattering including the center-of-mass correction and the Coulomb interaction.Angular distributions are presented for a number of nuclear pairs over a wide energy range using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 W. R. Gibbs , Jean-Pierre Dedonder

Any discovery of `new physics' in the neutrino sector first requires a precise prediction of the expected Standard Model cross section. Currently, Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) experiments are statistics limited.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-20 Raghda Abdel Khaleq , Jayden L. Newstead , Cedric Simenel , Andrew E. Stuchbery

In this article, we present an event-driven algorithm that generalizes the recent hard-sphere event-chain Monte Carlo method without introducing discretizations in time or in space. A factorization of the Metropolis filter and the concept…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-10 Manon Michel , Sebastian C. Kapfer , Werner Krauth

We construct a new Monte Carlo generator of events for neutrino interactions. The dynamical models for quasi-elastic reactions, $\Delta$ excitation and more inelastic events described by the DIS formalism with the PDFs modified according to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Cezary Juszczak , Jaroslaw A. Nowak , Jan T. Sobczyk