Bothmann, Enrico;
Buckley, Andy;
Gutschow, Christian;
Prestel, Stefan;
Schonherr, Marek;
Skands, Peter;
Andersen, Jeppe R;
... Siodmok, Andrzej; + view all
(2023)
A standard convention for particle-level Monte Carlo event-variation weights.
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Abstract
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 calculations, providing systematic variations on the nominal prediction within a single event sample. But the lack of a common standard for labelling these variation streams across different tools has proven to be a major limitation for event-processing tools and analysers alike. Here we propose a well-defined, extensible community standard for the naming, ordering, and interpretation of weight streams that will serve as the basis for semantically correct parsing and combination of such variations in both theoretical and experimental studies.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A standard convention for particle-level Monte Carlo event-variation weights |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.6.1.007 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.21468/scipostphyscore.6.1.007 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Physics, Multidisciplinary, Physics, CROSS-SECTION CALCULATIONS |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188268 |
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