Monte-Carlo reweighting workshop

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Discussion on MC reweighting tools. Organziers: Markus Schumacher, Fabio Maltoni, Alexandre Nikitenko

Minutes taken by Fabio:

Sasha: Introduction

The aim of this workshop is to see whether reweighting can be the way to systematically
study BSM with a limited number of MC samples. Today we’ll review the various approaches/tools
available on the market and also alternative methods.

Olivier: Reweighting possibilities (and limitations) in MG5_aMC

Markus question: Is default to use the full matrix element? yes.  The reweighting  module is
separated by “what you reweight with”.

Markus question: Color information: comes from the original theory. In other words it will work only
for the same color structure.

Markus question: What is exactly the plot in slide 12? It is a reweighting from an EFT to the full
theory.

Markus question: What is the time scale for NLO ? We don’t have a schedule yet for this.

Yuta: gg-> h production and event reweighting

Yuta described the techniques currently used. The method is additive.

Questions/comments by Fabio and Michael regarding how to improve the computation of the interference
terms. Michael suggested not to calculated it in the SM but at the different tan(beta) so that the
cancellation is less dramatic.

 

Michael : REPOLO

Question Markus: the reweighting is done only with tree-level matrix elements.  what do you do with
photons? There is a cut on Q^2=4. Questions on how the unitarization is achieved for heavy higgs was
raised (answer: by adding a light higgs) as well as it is possible to include CPS for the width
directly at the simulation level.

Markus: JHU/MELA

Nikita: Morphing is presented

This is an additive approach.   LO or NLO events? We are testing LO events.

Discussion:

 

 

 

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    • 09:00 09:10
      Introduction 10m
      Speakers: Alexandre Nikitenko (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE)), Markus Schumacher (Physikalisches Institut-Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg-Unk)
    • 09:10 09:30
      Theoretical Re-Weighting in MG5_aMC@NLO 20m
      Speaker: Olivier Pierre C Mattelaer (IPPP Durham)
      Slides
    • 09:30 09:50
      The CMS event reweighing for MSSM/2HDM gg→h production for Run II 20m
      Speaker: Yuta Takahashi (CERN)
      Slides
    • 09:50 10:10
      REPOLO: the VBFNLO spin-off to reweight Powheg events for VBF processes 20m
      Speaker: Michael Rauch (Univ. Karlsruhe, KIT)
      Slides
    • 10:10 10:25
      Break 15m
    • 10:30 10:50
      MC re-weighting for anomalous Higgs boson production and decay at the LHC:JHUGen/MELA framework 20m
      Speaker: Markus Christian Schulze (CERN)
      Slides
    • 10:50 11:10
      Monte Carlo sample morphing 20m
      Speaker: Nikita Belyaev (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (RU))
      Slides
    • 11:10 12:00
      Discussion 50m