Rivet has recently added machinery for BSM searches, including cut-flow & object-filtering tools, and analysis-specific fast detector simulation. The latter both provides efficiency maps specific to the analysis' acceptance, and aligns with the LHC experiments' chosen approach to not provide public fast-simulation tools. I'll review these developments and the performance of this approach for...
GAMBIT is a modular and open-source tool for performing BSM global fits. I will give an update on the development of GAMBIT, with emphasis on GAMBIT as a recast tool for LHC results. I will also present preliminary results from GAMBIT global fits of GUT-scale and weak-scale SUSY models.
MadAnalysis 5 is a package for event file analysis and recasting of LHC results. Based on a C++ kernel, it allows to design in a user-friendly and an efficiently fashion a sophisticated analysis of Monte Carlo samples. With the help of its expert mode and its interface to Delphes, the platform is also able to recast existed ATLAS/CMS analyses and gives access to a large collection of recast...
Constraining new theories using SM signatures (Contur: https://contur.hepforge.org/) review and update.
SModelS is a tool that allows for a systematic confrontation of an arbitrary BSM theory with LHC's simplified models results. In this talk, we shall present the novel features of our upcoming SModelS version 1.1, which includes the support for efficiency maps, a much increased database of SMS results, and a facility to compute likelihoods and chi-square values. In addition, a sketch shall be...
The interpretation of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data in the framework of Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) theories is hampered by the need to run computationally expensive event generators and detector simulators. Performing statistically convergent scans of high-dimensional BSM theories is consequently challenging, and in practice unfeasible for very high-dimensional BSM theories. We present...
There are now a number of tools on the market that allow models of new physics to be tested against the latest LHC data. These tools fall into two categories, those that perform full event simulation and those that make use of simplified models. The full event simulation tools have the drawback that they require significant computing power while simplified models are sometimes inaccurate when...
AEACuS is a software package for the computation of collider event statistics and the application of event selection cuts. It interfaces with the LHCO format output of popular detector simulation packages Delphes and PGS. A compact and powerful card file syntax separates reusable user instructions from the code library. Support for most event discriminants employed by ATLAS and CMS is built...
