On the maximal use of Monte Carlo samples: re-weighting events at NLO accuracy

2016/07/04 by Olivier Mattelaer · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ex #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4533-7

10 pages

arxiv created 2016/07/04 · arxiv updated 2016/12/21

Abstract

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 accurate up to NLO in QCD under different theoretical hypotheses. We implement it in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO and show its validation by applying it to several cases of practical interest for the search of new physics at the LHC.

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