Automation of the matrix element reweighting method

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2010)068zbMATH Open1294.81311arXiv1007.3300OpenAlexW1999348172MaRDI QIDQ407006FDOQ407006

Authors: Pierre Artoisenet, Vincent Lemaître, F. Maltoni, O. Mattelaer 

Publication date: 29 August 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Matrix element reweighting is a powerful experimental technique widely employed to maximize the amount of information that can be extracted from a collider data set. We present a procedure that allows to automatically evaluate the weights for any process of interest in the standard model and beyond. Given the initial, intermediate and final state particles, and the transfer functions for the final physics objects, such as leptons, jets, missing transverse energy, our algorithm creates a phase-space mapping designed to efficiently perform the integration of the squared matrix element and the transfer functions. The implementation builds up on MadGraph, it is completely automatized and publicly available. A few sample applications are presented that show the capabilities of the code and illustrate the possibilities for new studies that such an approach opens up.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3300

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zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelHiggs physicsstandard modelsupersymmetric standard model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-08) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Cites Work

• PYTHIA 6.4 physics and manual

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Uses Software

• MadGraph
• VEGAS
• MadEvent
• PYTHIA8

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