Status and Developmentsof Event Generators
Torbjorn Sjostrand
Theoretical Particle PhysicsDepartment of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics
Lund UniversitySolvegatan 14A, 223 62 Lund
LHCP 2016, Lund, 13 June 2016
Table of Contents
? Historical introduction from the Lund perspective ?? Generator overview + MCnet ?
? Herwig, Sherpa, PYTHIA news & plans ?? Match & merge overview ?? Some other programs ?? Summary and outlook ?
Further talks by Gavin Salam, Rikkert Frederix,Tomas Jezo, Marek Schonherr, Frank Tackmann, . . .. . . and several of the experimental presentations (?)
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1976: Lund QCD Phenomenology group
Created by Bo Andersson and Gosta Gustafson
space
timequarkantiquarkpair creation
Lund string model: ∼ like rubber bandthat is pulled apart and breaks into pieces,or like a magnet broken into smaller pieces.
Complete, consistent description of 2-jet events— but not necessarily perfect.
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1978: JETSET version 1
≈ 200 punched cards
Fortran code
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1980: string (colour coherence) effect
quark
antiquark
gluon
string motion in the event plane(without breakups)
Predicted unique event structure;inside & between jets.Confirmed first by JADE 1980.
Generator crucialto sell physics!
(today: PS, M&M, MPI, . . . )
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1980: string (colour coherence) effect
quark
antiquark
gluon
string motion in the event plane(without breakups)
Predicted unique event structure;inside & between jets.Confirmed first by JADE 1980.
Generator crucialto sell physics!
(today: PS, M&M, MPI, . . . )
Torbjorn Sjostrand Status and Developments of Event Generators slide 5/28
Lund contributions
Physics:
string fragmentation(& colour coherence)
dipole showers
backwards evolution (for ISR)
multiparton interactions (MPI)
colour reconnection (CR)
matching (POWHEG style)& merging (CKKW-L, . . . )
small-x evolution (CCFM, . . . )
interleaved evolution
heavy-ion collisions
QCD effects for BSM
Generators:
JETSETPYTHIAFritiofAriadneLDCDIPSY
LeptoVINCIADIRE
RapGapHIJING· · ·GEANT
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The workhorses
Herwig, PYTHIA and Sherpa offer convenient frameworksfor LHC physics studies, covering all aspects above,but with slightly different history/emphasis:
PYTHIA (successor to JETSET, begun in 1978):originated in hadronization studies,still special interest in soft physics.
Herwig (successor to EARWIG, begun in 1984):originated in coherent showers (angular ordering),cluster hadronization as simple complement.
Sherpa (APACIC++/AMEGIC++, begun in 2000):had own matrix-element calculator/generatororiginated with matching & merging issues.
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The structure of an event
All full-fledged generators need to address many issues:
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MCnet
HerwigPYTHIASherpaMadGraph
Plugin:AriadneDIPSYHEJ
CEDAR:RivetProfessorHepForgeLHAPDFHepMC
EU-funded 2007–10,2013–16, 2017–20
Generator development
Services to community
PhD student training
Common activities
Short-term studentships(3 - 6 months).Experimentalists welcome!
Summer schools2016: DESY (w. CTEQ)2017: Lund, 3 - 7 July
Send your students!
Nodes:ManchesterCERNDurhamGlasgowGottingenHeidelbergKarlsruheUC LondonLouvainLund
Monash (Au)SLAC (US)
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MCnet
HerwigPYTHIASherpaMadGraph
Plugin:AriadneDIPSYHEJ
CEDAR:RivetProfessorHepForgeLHAPDFHepMC
EU-funded 2007–10,2013–16, 2017–20
Generator development
Services to community
PhD student training
Common activities
Short-term studentships(3 - 6 months).Experimentalists welcome!
Summer schools2016: DESY (w. CTEQ)2017: Lund, 3 - 7 July
Send your students!
Nodes:ManchesterCERNDurhamGlasgowGottingenHeidelbergKarlsruheUC LondonLouvainLund
Monash (Au)SLAC (US)
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Herwig 7.0 news
Herwig++ 3.0 ⇒ Herwig 7.0 (December 2015).Concludes 16 years effort to replace Fortran Herwig 6.
NLO matched to parton showers default for hard process.
Fully automated: no external codes to run,no intermediate event files.Choice of subtractive (MC@NLO type)or multiplicative (PowHeg type) matching.
Two showers: angular ordered or dipole.Spin correlations and QED radiation in the former.
Facilities for parton-shower uncertainties.
New tunes, including MB/UE.
Vastly improved documentation, usage and installation.
Several parallelization options.
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Matchbox in Herwig 7Herwig 7.0 – Under the Hood
Matchbox
MadGraph
ColorFull
GoSam
NJet
OpenLoops
VBFNLO
HJets++
CVolver
Recola
QTildeShower
DipoleShower
Cluster Hadronization
Decays
Eikonal MPI
Matching subtractions
ME corrections
Built-in MEBSM & UFO
Simon Platzer (IP3 Durham & Manchester) Status of Herwig 7 4 / 13
script downloads & sets up external libraries (above + more)
(figure by S. Platzer)
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Herwig 7.0 news
Herwig++ 3.0 ⇒ Herwig 7.0 (December 2015).Concludes 16 years effort to replace Fortran Herwig 6.
NLO matched to parton showers default for hard process.
Fully automated: no external codes to run,no intermediate event files.Choice of subtractive (MC@NLO type)or multiplicative (PowHeg type) matching.
Two showers: angular ordered or dipole.Spin correlations and QED radiation in the former.
Facilities for parton-shower uncertainties.
New tunes, including MB/UE.
Vastly improved documentation, usage and installation.
Several parallelization options.
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Herwig 7 examplesHerwig 7.0 – Few Examples
Herwig 7MadGraph / ColorFull / OpenLoops
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Tons of plots using all combinations at: https://herwig.hepforge.org/plots/herwig7.0/
Simon Platzer (IP3 Durham & Manchester) Status of Herwig 7 7 / 13
Herwig 7.0 – Few Examples
Herwig 7MadGraph / ColorFull / OpenLoops
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Tons of plots using all combinations at: https://herwig.hepforge.org/plots/herwig7.0/
Simon Platzer (IP3 Durham & Manchester) Status of Herwig 7 8 / 13
LO → NLO ⇒ major improvements in e+e− and pp alike.Subtractive or multiplicative matching less important.Ditto angular-ordered or dipole shower.
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Future of Herwig 7
Herwig 7.1 later this year:
NLO multijet merging (unitarized merging ideas).
Loop-induced processes.
Extended UFO-model support.
Extended reweighting: weight vectors in HepMC files.
Improved top decay in dipole shower.
Interface to HEJ.
Soft interactions and diffraction.
In the longer run:
Code now 500k lines ⇒ need for significant restructuring.
Amplitude-based parton showers.
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Sherpa 2.2 news and activities
Recent news:
DIRE shower (see below).
UNNLOPS - first results on NNLO merging.
On-the-fly scale variations of NLO ME + PS.ME observables through interpolating grids(ApplGrid, FastNLO, MCgrid, . . . ).
Electroweak NLO corrections, together with OpenLoops.
Merging for loop-induced processes.
Ongoing work and plans:
Full NNLO QCD + NLO EW (for 2→ 1, 2→ 2).
Higher-order shower(one-loop splitting functions, sub-leading colour).
Automated N-jettiness slicing.
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Sherpa NNLO QCD with parton showersNew: NNLO QCD with parton showers
W production @ NNLO+PS with SHERPA +BLACKHAT
[Hoche et al. arXiv:1507.05325]
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,! small corrections away from Born kinematics
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Sherpa 2.2 news and activities
Recent news:
DIRE shower (see below).
UNNLOPS - first results on NNLO merging.
On-the-fly scale variations of NLO ME + PS.ME observables through interpolating grids(ApplGrid, FastNLO, MCgrid, . . . ).
Electroweak NLO corrections, together with OpenLoops.
Merging for loop-induced processes.
Ongoing work and plans:
Full NNLO QCD + NLO EW (for 2→ 1, 2→ 2).
Higher-order shower(one-loop splitting functions, sub-leading colour).
Automated N-jettiness slicing.
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Sherpa QCD coherence test
Study events with two hard and one further softer third jets.Angular distribution of third around second probes colour coherence:
Pheno: QCD color coherence
Coherence e↵ects in 3-jet events (CMS) [Chatrchyan et al. Eur. Phys. J. C 74 (2014) 2901]
presented comparison to shower MCs
PYTHIA 6 & 8, HERWIG++ 2.3
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Pheno: QCD color coherence
Coherence e↵ects in 3-jet eventsanalysis meanwhile available in RIVET
comparison against SHERPA dipole shower and 2 ! 2, 3, 4jets MEPS@LO
default hadronisation & underlying event tune; yields satisfactory agreement with data
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gradually move to standard (inclusive) 3-jet selection26/27
PYTHIA/Herwig does not quitedescribe data, whereas Sherpafares much better.
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Sherpa 2.2 news and activities
Recent news:
DIRE shower (see below).
UNNLOPS - first results on NNLO merging.
On-the-fly scale variations of NLO ME + PS.ME observables through interpolating grids(ApplGrid, FastNLO, MCgrid, . . . ).
Electroweak NLO corrections, together with OpenLoops.
Merging for loop-induced processes.
Ongoing work and plans:
Full NNLO QCD + NLO EW (for 2→ 1, 2→ 2).
Higher-order shower(one-loop splitting functions, sub-leading colour).
Automated N-jettiness slicing.
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PYTHIA 8.2 news
New match&merge schemes(now 8) and options.
Weak showers: q→ qZ0,q→ q′W± (also merged).
Allow reweighting ofrare shower branchings.
Automated parton-showeruncertainty bands.
Extended interface forexternal shower plugins.
Z/W + jets results
The Pythia distributions arenormalized such that firstbin fit the data.
The shower starting scale iss for Drell-Yanand p? for QCD 2 ! 2.
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Complete LHEF v3 support.
Can run Madgraph5 aMC@NLO and POWHEG BOXfrom within PYTHIA.
Complete Python interface.
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PYTHIA 8.2 news
New match&merge schemes(now 8) and options.
Weak showers: q→ qZ0,q→ q′W± (also merged).
Allow reweighting ofrare shower branchings.
Automated parton-showeruncertainty bands.
Extended interface forexternal shower plugins.
Z/W + jets results
The Pythia distributions arenormalized such that firstbin fit the data.
The shower starting scale iss for Drell-Yanand p? for QCD 2 ! 2.
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Complete LHEF v3 support.
Can run Madgraph5 aMC@NLO and POWHEG BOXfrom within PYTHIA.
Complete Python interface.
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PYTHIA 8.2 news
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⌅/⇤ is the same as old model - no strangeness enhancement
JRC (Lund) CR and Weak Showers November 5, Lund 22 / 30
Many new colourreconnection models.
Double onium production.New model for hard diffraction.Several new tunes; Monash new default.
Ongoing work and plans:
γγ, γp and ep.Total, elastic and diffractive cross sections.Improved showers and hadronization.
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PYTHIA 8.2 news
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(No rate change in e+e�)
⌅/⇤ is the same as old model - no strangeness enhancement
JRC (Lund) CR and Weak Showers November 5, Lund 22 / 30
Many new colourreconnection models.Double onium production.New model for hard diffraction.Several new tunes; Monash new default.
Ongoing work and plans:
γγ, γp and ep.Total, elastic and diffractive cross sections.Improved showers and hadronization.
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Match and merge strategies
Input from:Madgraph5 aMC@NLOPOWHEG BOXALPGENCOMIX/SherpaNLOJET++JETRADHJETS++BlackHatGoSamHelacOpenLoopsVBFNLOCalpHEP/CompHEP. . .
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Intense activity, no “final word”.
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Combination strategies
Big flexibility, but different baseline “world view”:
MadGraph:
ME gen
M&M
Event gen
Herwig, Sherpa:
ME gen
M&M
Event gen
Pythia:
M&MEvent gen
ME gen
Les Houches
Event gen = ISR + FSR + MPI + BBR + CR + hadronization + . . .6= “hadronizer”
ME and Event Generators both indispensable
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VINCIA: an Interleaved Antennae shower
Markovian process: no memory of path to reach current state.
Based on antenna factorization of amplitudes and phase space.
Smooth ordering fillswhole phase space.
Step-by-step reweightingto new matrix elements:Z → Zj → Zjj → Zjjj(also Sudakov), e.g.
W =|MZj|2∑i ai |MZ|2i
Replaces PYTHIAnormal showers;recent release.
A Result
Predictions made withpublicly availableVINCIA 2.0.01(vincia.hepforge.org)+ PYTHIA 8+ MADGRAPH 4
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DIRE: a Dipole Resummation shower
Joint Sherpa/PYTHIA development,but separate implementations,means technically well tested.
“Midpoint between dipole andparton shower”,dipole with emitter & spectator,but not quite CS ones:unified initial–initial, initial–final,final–initial, final–final.
Soft term of kernels in alldipole types is less singular
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Apologies: will not cover
High Energy Jets (HEJ): BFKL-inspired description ofwell-separated multijets, with approximate matrix elementsand virtual corrections.
Deductor: improved handling of colour, partitioned dipoles,all final partons share recoil, q2/E evolution variable.
Geneva: Soft Collinear Effective Theory resummed (exclusive)n-jet rates as starting point for showers.
Ariadne: first dipole parton shower program.
DIPSY: evolution and collision of dipoles in transverse space.
revived Fritiof: overlayed modified pp collisions to model pA.
EPOS: pp/pA/AA, MPI + strings, saturation, thermalizedcore separate from corona, hydrodynamical evolution.
DPMJET, QGSJET, SIBYLL: other pp/pA/AA/cosmic ray.
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Summary and Outlook
Increased ME calculational capability: legs and loops.
Match and merge approaches still steadily developing.Generators typically offer several options.Spread between approaches one measure of uncertainty.
Continued/increased interest in parton shower development,with each generator offering several options.
Automated uncertainty bands for scale choices etc.
Many challenges remaining in soft physics, pA, AA:diffraction, colour reconnection, collective effects, . . .
Generators have gone from fringe activity for a few
to a mainstream part of phenomenology research.
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Thank You!