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most citedAn Introduction to PYTHIA 8.2

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53 papers

cs.RO2026

From Rubble Simulation to Active Magnetic Mapping: Quantum Sensing for Disaster Response

Samuel Tovey, Stefan Prestel, Hiroshi Yamauchi

Locating survivors of building collapses within the first 72 hours is a critical challenge in disaster response, and existing sensing modalities provide only partial information ab…

quant-ph2026

Penalty-free quantum optimization applied to lattice protein folding

Leif Gellersen, Anders Irbäck, Lucas Knuthson +1

Identifying minimum-energy structures of lattice proteins is a challenging discrete optimization problem. Quantum approaches such as analog quantum annealing and the gate-based qua…

quant-ph2023

First quantum machine learning applications on an on-site room-temperature quantum computer

Nils Herrmann, Mariam Akhtar, Daanish Arya +5

We demonstrate - for the first time - the application of a quantum machine learning (QML) algorithm on an on-site room-temperature quantum computer. A two-qubit quantum computer in…

hep-th2023★ 4 cited

Rational Q-systems at Root of Unity I. Closed Chains

Jue Hou, Yunfeng Jiang, Yuan Miao

The solution of Bethe ansatz equations for XXZ spin chain with the parameter being a root of unity is infamously subtle. In this work, we develop the rational -system for th…

quant-ph2023★ 34 cited

Quantum utility -- definition and assessment of a practical quantum advantage

Nils Herrmann, Daanish Arya, Marcus W. Doherty +4

Several benchmarks have been proposed to holistically measure quantum computing performance. While some have focused on the end user's perspective (e.g., in application-oriented be…

hep-ph2022★ 2 cited

Morphing parton showers with event derivatives

Benjamin Nachman, Stefan Prestel

We develop EventMover, a differentiable parton shower event generator. This tool generates high- and variable-length scattering events that can be moved with simulation derivatives…

hep-ph2022★ 9 cited

Systematic Quark/Gluon Identification with Ratios of Likelihoods

Samuel Bright-Thonney, Ian Moult, Benjamin Nachman +1

Discriminating between quark- and gluon-initiated jets has long been a central focus of jet substructure, leading to the introduction of numerous observables and calculations to hi…

hep-ph2022★ 25 cited

Collider Events on a Quantum Computer

Gösta Gustafson, Stefan Prestel, Michael Spannowsky +1

High-quality simulated data is crucial for particle physics discoveries. Therefore, parton shower algorithms are a major building block of the data synthesis in event generator pro…

hep-ph2022★ 19 cited

Back-to-back azimuthal correlations in Z+jet events at high transverse momentum in the TMD parton branching method at next-to-leading order

H. Yang, A. Bermudez Martinez, L. I. Estevez Banos +9

Azimuthal correlations in Z+jet production at large transverse momenta are computed by matching Parton - Branching (PB) TMD parton distributions and showers with NLO calculations v…

hep-ph2022★ 43 cited

A comprehensive guide to the physics and usage of PYTHIA 8.3

Christian Bierlich, Smita Chakraborty, Nishita Desai +11

This manual describes the PYTHIA 8.3 event generator, the most recent version of an evolving physics tool used to answer fundamental questions in particle physics. The program is m…

hep-ph2022★ 1 cited

A standard convention for particle-level Monte Carlo event-variation weights

Enrico Bothmann, Andy Buckley, Christian Gütschow +21

Streams of event weights in particle-level Monte Carlo event generators are a convenient and immensely CPU-efficient approach to express systematic uncertainties in phenomenology c…

hep-ex2022★ 14 cited

Current Status and Future Prospects for the Light Dark Matter eXperiment

Torsten Åkesson, Nikita Blinov, Lukas Brand-Baugher +45

The constituents of dark matter are still unknown, and the viable possibilities span a vast range of masses. The physics community has established searching for sub-GeV dark matter…

hep-ph2022

Combining N3LO QCD calculations and parton showers for hadronic collision events

Valerio Bertone, Stefan Prestel

Detailed and precise background predictions are the backbone of large parts of high-energy collider phenomenology. This requires to embed precision QCD calculations into detailed e…

hep-ph2021★ 15 cited

Azimuthal correlations of high transverse momentum jets at next-to-leading order in the parton branching method

M. I. Abdulhamid, M. A. Al-Mashad, A. Bermudez Martinez +26

The azimuthal correlation, , of high transverse momentum jets in pp collisions at TeV is studied by applying PB-TMD distributions to NLO calculations via MCa…

hep-ph2021★ 27 cited

Disentangling soft and collinear effects in QCD parton showers

Leif Gellersen, Stefan Höche, Stefan Prestel

We introduce a method for the separation of soft and collinear logarithms in QCD parton evolution at and at leading color. Using an implementation of the techn…

hep-ph2021

Coloring mixed QCD/QED evolution

Leif Gellersen, Stefan Prestel, Michael Spannowsky

Parton showers are crucial components of high-energy physics calculations. Improving their modelling of QCD is an active research area since shower approximations are stumbling blo…

hep-ph2021★ 16 cited

Matching N3LO QCD calculations to parton showers

Stefan Prestel

The search for new interactions and particles in high-energy collider physics relies on precise background predictions. This has led to many advances in combining precise fixed-ord…

physics.comp-ph2020

HL-LHC Computing Review: Common Tools and Community Software

HEP Software Foundation, :, Thea Aarrestad +107

Common and community software packages, such as ROOT, Geant4 and event generators have been a key part of the LHC's success so far and continued development and optimisation will b…

hep-ph2020★ 29 cited

Probing Dark Matter with Disappearing Tracks at the LHC

Alexander Belyaev, Stefan Prestel, Felipe Rojas-Abbate +1

Models where dark matter is a part of an electroweak multiplet feature charged particles with macroscopic lifetimes due to the charged-neutral mass split of the order of pion mass.…

hep-ph2020★ 24 cited

A Positive Resampler for Monte Carlo Events with Negative Weights

Jeppe R. Andersen, Christian Gutschow, Andreas Maier +1

We propose the Positive Resampler to solve the problem associated with event samples from state-of-the-art predictions for scattering processes at hadron colliders typically involv…

hep-ph2020★ 80 cited

Challenges in Monte Carlo event generator software for High-Luminosity LHC

The HSF Physics Event Generator WG, :, Andrea Valassi +38

We review the main software and computing challenges for the Monte Carlo physics event generators used by the LHC experiments, in view of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) physics p…

hep-ph2020

Les Houches 2019: Physics at TeV Colliders: Standard Model Working Group Report

S. Amoroso, P. Azzurri, J. Bendavid +80

This Report summarizes the proceedings of the 2019 Les Houches workshop on Physics at TeV Colliders. Session 1 dealt with (I) new developments for high precision Standard Model cal…

hep-ph2020★ 49 cited

On the reduction of negative weights in MC@NLO-type matching procedures

R. Frederix, S. Frixione, S. Prestel +1

We show how a careful analysis of the behaviour of a parton shower Monte Carlo in the vicinity of the soft and collinear regions allows one to formulate a modified MC@NLO-matching…

hep-ph2020★ 7 cited

Scale and Scheme Variations in Unitarized NLO Merging

Leif Gellersen, Stefan Prestel

Precision background predictions with well-defined uncertainty estimates are important for interpreting collider-physics measurements and for planning future high-energy collider e…