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Pythia-Contrib: a modular contribution framework for the Pythia 8 event generator

Benoit Assi, Christian Bierlich, Rikab Gambhir +6

Pythia is a general-purpose Monte Carlo event generator used in particle, astroparticle, and nuclear physics, by theorists and experimentalists, to simulate particle collisions. Be…

hep-ph2026

HEPTABench: A framework for portable and controlled agentic evaluations in high energy physics

Tony Menzo, Alexander Roman, George T. Fleming +3

Quantifying the capability and reliability of agentic systems in high-energy physics (HEP) requires repeated evaluations under controlled configurations. Establishing whether chang…

hep-ph2026

Reining in an Agentic Harness for High Energy Physics

Tony Menzo, George T. Fleming, Konstantin T. Matchev +2

Agentic systems now address tasks across theoretical, phenomenological, and experimental high energy physics (HEP), but their scientific capabilities remain difficult to reuse acro…

hep-lat2026

Confinement, String Breaking, and Hadronization in the Compact Abelian Higgs Model

Blake Senseman, Zane Ozzello, Yannick Meurice +1

While real-time simulation of Quantum Chromodynamics remains technologically out of reach, many simplified models for studying elements of QCD phenomenology are being investigated.…

physics.ed-ph2026

Vistas: A Visualization Interface for Particle Collision Simulations

Benoit Assi, Christan Bierlich, Rikab Gambhir +7

We introduce Vistas, a tool for visualizing high-energy particle physics collisions simulated by the Pythia Monte-Carlo event generator. Vistas utilizes the browser-based event dis…

hep-ph2026

Agentic Diagrammatica: Towards Autonomous Symbolic Computation in High Energy Physics

Tony Menzo, Alexander Roman, George T. Fleming +3

We present Diagrammatica, a symbolic computation extension to the HEPTAPOD agentic framework, which enables LLM agents to plan and execute multi-step theoretical calculations. Symb…

hep-ex2026

Building an AI-native Research Ecosystem for Experimental Particle Physics: A Community Vision

Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad, Alaa Abdelhamid, Haider Abidi +457

Experimental particle physics seeks to understand the universe by probing its fundamental particles and forces and exploring how they govern the large-scale processes that shape co…

hep-ph2026

HDSense: An efficient method for ranking observable sensitivity

Benoît Assi, Christian Bierlich, Rikab Gambhir +6

Identifying which observables most effectively constrain model parameters can be computationally prohibitive when considering full likelihoods of many correlated observables. This…