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EPOS LHC: Test of collective hadronization with data measured at the CERN Large Hadron Collider Open
16 pages, 34 figures
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Herwig 7.0/Herwig++ 3.0 release note Open
A major new release of the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig++ (version 3.0) is now available. This release marks the end of distinguishing Herwig++ and HERWIG development and therefore constitutes the first major release of version 7 of …
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Extraction and validation of a new set of CMS pythia8 tunes from underlying-event measurements Open
New sets of CMS underlying-event parameters (“tunes”) are presented for the pythia 8 event generator. These tunes use the NNPDF3.1 parton distribution functions (PDFs) at leading (LO), next-to-leading (NLO), or next-to-next-to-leading (NNL…
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Hadronic interaction model sibyll 2.3d and extensive air showers Open
We present a new version of the hadron interaction event generator Sibyll. While the core ideas of the model have been preserved, the new version handles the production of baryon pairs and leading particles in a new way. In addition, produ…
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The GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator: Physics and User Manual Open
GENIE is a suite of products for the experimental neutrino physics community. This suite includes i) a modern software framework for implementing neutrino event generators, a state-of-the-art comprehensive physics model and tools to suppor…
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Les Houches 2019: Physics at TeV Colliders: Standard Model Working Group Report Open
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 calculations, (II) the sensitivity of parton distribution func…
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Dynamical coupled-channels model for neutrino-induced meson productions in resonance region Open
A dynamical coupled-channels (DCC) model for neutrino-nucleon reactions in the resonance region is developed. Starting from the DCC model that we have previously developed through an analysis of $\pi N, \gamma N\to \pi N, \eta N, K\Lambda,…
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Global fit of top quark effective theory to data Open
In this paper we present a global fit of beyond the Standard Model (BSM)\ndimension six operators relevant to the top quark sector to currently available\ndata. Experimental measurements include parton-level top-pair and single top\nproduc…
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Beyond standard model calculations with Sherpa Open
We present a fully automated framework as part of the Sherpa event generator for the computation of tree-level cross sections in Beyond Standard Model scenarios, making use of model information given in the Universal FeynRules Output forma…
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Multistage Monte Carlo simulation of jet modification in a static medium Open
In this work, the modification of hard jets in an extended static medium held at a fixed temperature is studied using three different Monte Carlo event generators: linear Boltzmann transport (LBT), modular all twist transverse-scattering e…
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Implementation of the SuSAv2-meson exchange current 1p1h and 2p2h models in GENIE and analysis of nuclear effects in T2K measurements Open
We first present the implementation and validation of the SuSAv2-MEC 1p1h and\n2p2h models in the GENIE neutrino-nucleus interaction event generator and a\ncomparison of the subsequent predictions to measurements of lepton and hadron\nkine…
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GRAPE-Dilepton (Version 1.1) A generator for dilepton production in ep collisions Open
GRAPE-Dilepton is a Monte Carlo event generator for dilepton production in ep collisions. The cross-section calculation is based on the exact matrix elements in the electroweak theory at tree level. The dilepton productions via γγ, γZ^0 , …
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The Effective Vector Boson Approximation in high-energy muon collisions Open
A bstract Due to the inclination for forward gauge radiation, lepton colliders beyond a few TeV are effectively electroweak (EW) boson colliders, suggesting the treatment of EW bosons as constituents of high-energy leptons. In the context …
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Effects of subleading color in a parton shower Open
Parton shower Monte Carlo event generators in which the shower evolves from hard splittings to soft splittings generally use the leading color (LC) approximation, which is the leading term in an expansion in powers of 1/N 2 ,where Nc =3 is…
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Reweighting parton showers Open
We report on the possibility of reweighting parton-shower Monte Carlo predictions for scale variations in the parton-shower algorithm. The method is based on a generalization of the Sudakov veto algorithm. We demonstrate the feasibility of…
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Supernova detection and triggering with the DUNE Far Detector Open
Parallel Talk presented at the XX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes - Venice 23-27 October 2023
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New features in the JHU generator framework: Constraining Higgs boson properties from on-shell and off-shell production Open
We present an extension of the JHUGen and MELA framework, which includes an event generator and library for the matrix element analysis. It enables simulation, optimal discrimination, reweighting techniques, and analysis of a bosonic reson…
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Event Generators for High-Energy Physics Experiments Open
We provide an overview of the status of Monte-Carlo event generators for high-energy particle physics. Guided by the experimental needs and requirements, we highlight areas of active development, and opportunities for future improvements. …
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Jet fragmentation via recombination of parton showers Open
We propose to model hadronization of parton showers in QCD jets through a hybrid approach involving quark recombination and string fragmentation. This is achieved by allowing gluons at the end of the perturbative shower evolution to underg…
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The GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator: Physics and User Manual Open
GENIE is a suite of products for the experimental neutrino physics community. This suite includes i) a modern software framework for implementing neutrino event generators, a state-of-the-art comprehensive physics model and tools to suppor…
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Event generators for high-energy physics experiments Open
We provide an overview of the status of Monte-Carlo event generators for high-energy particle physics. Guided by the experimental needs and requirements, we highlight areas of active development, and opportunities for future improvements. …
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Charm production in SIBYLL Open
SIBYLL 2.1 is an event generator for hadron interactions at the highest energies. It is commonly used to analyze and interpret extensive air shower measurements. In light of the first detection of PeV neutrinos by the IceCube collaboration…
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Event simulation based on three-fluid hydrodynamics for collisions at energies available at the Dubna Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility and at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Darmstadt Open
We present a new event generator based on the three-fluid hydrodynamics\napproach for the early stage of the collision, followed by a particlization at\nthe hydrodynamic decoupling surface to join to a microscopic transport model,\nUrQMD, …
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Cascade equations and hadronic interactions at high energies Open
The new matrix form of cascade equations is convenient to discuss numerical properties and to investigate the role of hadrons and phase-space for atmospheric leptons. Precision is often limited by hadronic interactions models. I improved t…
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Top-pair production at the LHC with MINNLOPS Open
A bstract We consider the production of a pair of heavy quarks and illustrate the derivation of the M i NNLOPS method to match next-to-next-to-leading order calculations with parton showers (NNLO+PS) for this class of processes. As a first…
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Revealing a deep connection between factorization and saturation: New insight into modeling high-energy proton-proton and nucleus-nucleus scattering in the EPOS4 framework Open
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Inclusive electron scattering and the genie neutrino event generator Open
The extraction of neutrino mixing parameters from accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments relies on proper modeling of neutrino-nucleus scattering processes using neutrino-interaction event generators. Experimental tests of thes…
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An event generator for same-sign W-boson scattering at the LHC including electroweak corrections Open
In this article we present an event generator based on the Monte Carlo program Powheg in combination with the matrix-element generator Recola . We apply it to compute NLO electroweak corrections to same-sign W-boson scattering, which have …
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Nuclear transparency in Monte Carlo neutrino event generators Open
The hadron cascade model is an essential part of Monte Carlo neutrino event generators that governs final-state interactions of knocked-out nucleons and produced pions. It is shown that such a model enriched with physically motivated modif…
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Mass depletion: A new parameter for quantitative jet modification Open
In this paper, we propose an extension to classify jet modification in heavy-ion collisions by including the jet mass along with its energy. The mass of a jet, as measured by jet reconstruction algorithms, is constrained by the jet's virtu…