SciPost Physics (Oct 2023)

Efficient phase-space generation for hadron collider event simulation

  • Enrico Bothmann, Taylor Childers, Walter Giele, Florian Herren, Stefan Höche, Joshua Isaacson, Max Knobbe, Rui Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.4.169
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 4
p. 169

Abstract

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We present a simple yet efficient algorithm for phase-space integration at hadron colliders. Individual mappings consist of a single t-channel combined with any number of s-channel decays, and are constructed using diagrammatic information. The factorial growth in the number of channels is tamed by providing an option to limit the number of s-channel topologies. We provide a publicly available, parallelized code in C++ and test its performance in typical LHC scenarios.