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We describe a Monte Carlo event generator for the production and decay of first and second string resonances through 2 $\rightarrow$ 2 partonic and also 2-parton $\rightarrow$ $\gamma$-parton scatterings in proton-proton collisions -…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-26 Pourya Vakilipourtakalou , Douglas M. Gingrich

The rapid deployment of computing hardware different from the traditional CPU+RAM model in data centers around the world mandates a change in the design of event generators for the Large Hadron Collider, in order to provide economically and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-18 Enrico Bothmann , Taylor Childers , Walter Giele , Stefan Höche , Joshua Isaacson , Max Knobbe

We present a model which describes proton scattering data from ISR to Tevatron energies, and which can be applied to collimation n high energy accelerators, such as the LHC and FCC. Collimators remove beam halo particles, so that they do…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 R. B. Appleby , R. J. Barlow , J. G Molson , M. Serluca , A. Toader

We present a comprehensive black-hole event generator, BlackMax, which simulates the experimental signatures of microscopic and Planckian black-hole production and evolution at the LHC in the context of brane world models with low-scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 De-Chang Dai , Glenn Starkman , Dejan Stojkovic , Cigdem Issever , Eram Rizvi , Jeff Tseng

We develop a Monte Carlo framework to analyze the statistics of quantum work in correlated electron systems. Using the Ising-Kondo model in heavy fermions as a paradigmatic platform, we thoroughly illustrate the process of determining the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-23 Qian-Xi Zhao , Jian-Jun Dong , Zi-Xiang Hu

Simulating showers of particles in highly-granular calorimeters is a key frontier in the application of machine learning to particle physics. Achieving high accuracy and speed with generative machine learning models can enable them to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-02 Thorsten Buss , Frank Gaede , Gregor Kasieczka , Anatolii Korol , Katja Krüger , Peter McKeown , Martina Mozzanica

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

We simulate the central reactions of nearly symmetric, and asymmetric systems, for the energies at which the maximum production of IMFs occurs (E$_{c.m.}^{peak}$).This study is carried out by using hard EOS along with cugnon cross section…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-23 Sukhjit Kaur , Aman D. Sood , Rajeev K. Puri

The characteristics of the thermal radiation are investigated using a two - component model, with the hard component being described by the Color Glass Condensate formalism. The inclusive transverse momentum spectra of charged hadrons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 A. V. Giannini , V. P. Goncalves , P. V. R. G. Silva

We describe the design concept and estimated performance of an iron-scintillator sampling calorimeter for the future Electron Ion Collider. The novel aspect of this detector is a multi-dimensional readout coupled with foreseen excellent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-29 Rowan Kelleher , Anselm Vossen , William W. Jacobs , Gerard Visser , Simon Schneider , Yordanka Ilieva , Pawel Nadel-Turonski

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

HERWIG is a general-purpose Monte Carlo event generator, which includes the simulation of hard lepton-lepton, lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron scattering and soft hadron-hadron collisions in one package. It uses the parton-shower approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-15 G. Corcella , I. G. Knowles , G. Marchesini , S. Moretti , K. Odagiri , P. Richardson , M. H. Seymour , B. R. Webber

There exist several proposals to use Weizs\"{a}cker-Williams photons generated by ultrarelativistic heavy ions to produce exotic particles in $\gamma\gamma$ fusion reactions. To estimate the background conditions for such reactions we…

In this contribution the new event generation framework Sherpa will be presented. It aims at the full simulation of events at current and future high-energy experiments, in particular the LHC. Some results related to the production of jets…

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

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

Producing large complex simulation datasets can often be a time and resource consuming task. Especially when these experiments are very expensive, it is becoming more reasonable to generate synthetic data for downstream tasks. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Paimon Goulart , Shaan Pakala , Evangelos Papalexakis

By the virtues of the Dyson-Schwinger equations, we upgrade the published code \mtt{HELAC} to be capable to calculate the heavy quarkonium helicity amplitudes in the framework of NRQCD factorization, which we dub \mtt{HELAC-Onia}. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-28 Hua-Sheng Shao

High energy heavy-ion collisions in laboratory produce a form of matter that can test Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions, at high temperatures. One of the exciting possibilities is the existence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-10 Sourendu Gupta , Debasish Mallick , Dipak Kumar Mishra , Bedangadas Mohanty , Nu Xu

We simulate the central reactions of nearly symmetric, and asymmetric systems, for the energies at which the maximum production of IMFs occurs (E$_{c.m.}^{peak}$).This study is carried out by using hard EOS along with cugnon cross section…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-23 Sukhjit Kaur , Aman D. Sood , Rajeev K. Puri

We show that in order to obtain a successful description of the transverse momenta distribution for charged particles in ion-ion collisions, one must include a thermal emission term. The temperature of this emission $T_{\rm th}$ turns out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-21 E. Gotsman , E. Levin