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hep-ph2026

Cat's cradle diagrams for substructure studies

Peter Skands

We propose Cat's Cradle diagrams as a framework to analyse the perturbative accuracy of gauge quantum field theories across different kinematic regions, interpolating between the p…

hep-ph2026

The Monte Carlo Ecosystem in High-Energy Physics: A Primer

Melissa van Beekveld, Enrico Bothmann, Andy Buckley +3

Monte Carlo event generators are the central interface between theoretical calculations and experimental measurements in collider physics. Over several decades, a comprehensive and…

hep-ph2026

Strangeness enhancement in pp collisions from string closepacking in Pythia 8.3

Javira Altmann, Lorenzo Bernardinis, Peter Skands +1

Measurements at LHC show an increased production of strange hadrons with charged multiplicity in pp collisions, which is not described by the Lund String Model (with the Monash tun…

hep-ph2025

Timelike showers with jet recoils

Jack Helliwell, Ludovic Scyboz, Peter Skands

We propose a new way to impose four-momentum conservation on timelike parton-shower branchings, allowing for recoil to be imparted not only to individual partons but also to groups…

hep-ph2025

Closepacking effects on strangeness and baryon production at the LHC

Javira Altmann, Lorenzo Bernardinis, Peter Skands +1

Data from the LHC show a rise in strange-hadron production with charged-particle multiplicity in pp collisions. The Monte-Carlo event generator PYTHIA, using its default Monash tun…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Sudakov evolution without unitarity

Javira Altmann, Hai Tao Li, Ludovic Scyboz +1

We present a method for sampling singular functions defined on (nested) multi-particle phase spaces, based on a generalisation of parton-shower phase-space generation techniques. A…