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Autori principali: Assi, Benoît, Höche, Stefan, Lee, Kyle, Thaler, Jesse
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17219
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author Assi, Benoît
Höche, Stefan
Lee, Kyle
Thaler, Jesse
author_facet Assi, Benoît
Höche, Stefan
Lee, Kyle
Thaler, Jesse
contents We present a novel technique to incorporate precision calculations from quantum chromodynamics into fully differential particle-level Monte-Carlo simulations. By minimizing an information-theoretic quantity subject to constraints, our reweighted Monte Carlo incorporates systematic uncertainties absent in individual Monte Carlo predictions, achieving consistency with the theory input in precision and its estimated systematic uncertainties. Our method can be applied to arbitrary observables known from precision calculations, including multiple observables simultaneously. It generates strictly positive weights, thus offering a clear path to statistically powerful and theoretically precise computations for current and future collider experiments. As a proof of concept, we apply our technique to event-shape observables at electron-positron colliders, leveraging existing precision calculations of thrust. Our analysis highlights the importance of logarithmic moments of event shapes, which have not been previously studied in the collider physics literature.
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spellingShingle QCD Theory meets Information Theory
Assi, Benoît
Höche, Stefan
Lee, Kyle
Thaler, Jesse
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Theory
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
We present a novel technique to incorporate precision calculations from quantum chromodynamics into fully differential particle-level Monte-Carlo simulations. By minimizing an information-theoretic quantity subject to constraints, our reweighted Monte Carlo incorporates systematic uncertainties absent in individual Monte Carlo predictions, achieving consistency with the theory input in precision and its estimated systematic uncertainties. Our method can be applied to arbitrary observables known from precision calculations, including multiple observables simultaneously. It generates strictly positive weights, thus offering a clear path to statistically powerful and theoretically precise computations for current and future collider experiments. As a proof of concept, we apply our technique to event-shape observables at electron-positron colliders, leveraging existing precision calculations of thrust. Our analysis highlights the importance of logarithmic moments of event shapes, which have not been previously studied in the collider physics literature.
title QCD Theory meets Information Theory
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Theory
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17219