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Accurate and fast simulation of particle physics processes is crucial for the high-energy physics community. Simulating particle interactions with detectors is both time consuming and computationally expensive. With the proton-proton…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-08-26 Ali Hariri , Darya Dyachkova , Sergei Gleyzer

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

The LHC generates an intense beam of high-energy neutrinos in the forward direction, whose scientific potential has been left unexploited for many years. The FASER and SND@LHC experiments, operating since 2023, have recently measured LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-30 Peter Krack

We apply a complex network-based method of visibility graph to explore the degree of complexity and fractal nature in the multiparticle production process at the LHC energy regime. For the investigation, we have used proton-proton (pp)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-14 Hirak Koley , Arindam Mondal , Somnath Kar , Sreejita Mukherjee , Joyati Mondal , Argha Deb , Mitali Mondal

With Run-II of the LHC starting its final year of data-taking, high precision theoretical predictions through Monte-Carlo event generators whose uncertainties match that of the recorded data are of highest importance. This talk summarises…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-01 Marek Schönherr

Accurate Monte Carlo simulations for high-energy events at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, are very expensive, both from the computing and storage points of view. We describe a method that allows to consistently re-use parton-level samples…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Olivier Mattelaer

Monte Carlo simulations are based on the manipulation of random numbers to evaluate probable outcomes, with applicability in a variety of different fields. By assigning probabilities, which can be determined a priori, to various events, it…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-01-03 Parasuraman Swaminathan

The production of top quarks through single or rare production modes has become important due to the large amount of data collected by both ATLAS and CMS at the LHC. Many searches are now studying these processes either as a targeted signal…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-02-24 Simon Berlendis

Based on QCD-inspired models for multiple jets production, we developed a Monte Carlo program to study jet and the associated particle production in high energy $pp$, $pA$ and $AA$ collisions. The physics behind the program which includes…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 Xin-Nian Wang , Miklos Gyulassy

The Monte Carlo for lepton pair production and tau decays consist of KKMC for lepton pair production, tauola for tau lepton decays and photos for radiative corrections in decays. An effort for adaptation of the system for precision data to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-16 Sw. Banerjee , D. Biswas , T. Przedzinski , Z. Was

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

After an introduction to event generators we give an overview of developments in the field of joining matrix elements with parton showers. Starting with matrix element corrections, we also discuss implementations that match LO and NLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Gieseke

We present a novel event generation framework for the efficient simulation of vector boson plus multi-jet backgrounds at the high-luminosity LHC and at possible future hadron colliders. MPI parallelization of parton-level and particle-level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-31 Stefan Höche , Stefan Prestel , Holger Schulz

A simple Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm for the simulation of the passage of low-energy gamma rays and electrons through any material medium is presented. The algorithm includes several approximations that accelerate the simulation while…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Víctor Moya , Jaime Rosado , Fernando Arqueros

Poor computing efficiency of precision event generators for LHC physics has become a bottleneck for Monte-Carlo event simulation campaigns. We provide solutions to this problem by focusing on two major components of general-purpose event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-28 Enrico Bothmann , Andy Buckley , Ilektra A. Christidi , Christian Gütschow , Stefan Höche , Max Knobbe , Tim Martin , Marek Schönherr

A simple C++ class structure for construction of a Monte Carlo event generators which can produce unweighted events within relativistic phase space is presented. The generator is self-adapting to the provided matrix element and acceptance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-18 R. A. Kycia , J. Chwastowski , R. Staszewski , J. Turnau

Monte Carlo event generators are a critical tool for the interpretation of data obtained by neutrino experiments. Several modern event generators are available which are well-suited to the GeV energy scale used in studies of accelerator…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-29 Steven Gardiner

For the understanding of the origin and propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) we developed a new approach to simulating UHECRs from an arbitrary number of sources based on Monte Carlo technique. The method consists of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-15 Klaus Dolag , Martin Erdmann , Gero Müller , David Walz , Tobias Winchen

Event generators are an indispensable tool for the preparation and analysis of particle-physics experiments. In this contribution, physics principles underlying the construction of such computer programs are discussed. Results, within and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 A. Schaelicke , T. Gleisberg , S. Hoeche , S. Schumann , J. Winter , F. Krauss , G. Soff

A Monte Carlo generator of high energy cosmic ray interactions, relying on a very basic and transparent theoretical formalism, in the framework of the Reggeon Field Theory, is presented. The main motivation for our work is to provide a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 Sergey Ostapchenko , Tanguy Pierog , Günter Sigl