A Demonstration of ARCANE Reweighting: Reducing the Sign Problem in the MC@NLO Generation of $e^+ e^- \rightarrow q \bar{q} + 1\, jet$ Events

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Main Author: Shyamsundar, Prasanth
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Published: 2025
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contents Negatively weighted events, which appear in the simulation of particle collisions, significantly increase the computational requirements of collider experiments. A new technique called ARCANE reweighting has been introduced in a companion paper to tackle this problem. This paper demonstrates the technique for the next-to-leading-order generation of $e^+ e^- \rightarrow q \bar{q} + 1\, jet$ events. By redistributing the contributions of "standard" and "hard remainder" pathways in the generator that lead to the same final event, ARCANE reweighting almost completely eliminates the negative weights problem for this process. Some thoughts on implementing the technique in other scenarios are provided.
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spellingShingle A Demonstration of ARCANE Reweighting: Reducing the Sign Problem in the MC@NLO Generation of $e^+ e^- \rightarrow q \bar{q} + 1\, jet$ Events
Shyamsundar, Prasanth
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Negatively weighted events, which appear in the simulation of particle collisions, significantly increase the computational requirements of collider experiments. A new technique called ARCANE reweighting has been introduced in a companion paper to tackle this problem. This paper demonstrates the technique for the next-to-leading-order generation of $e^+ e^- \rightarrow q \bar{q} + 1\, jet$ events. By redistributing the contributions of "standard" and "hard remainder" pathways in the generator that lead to the same final event, ARCANE reweighting almost completely eliminates the negative weights problem for this process. Some thoughts on implementing the technique in other scenarios are provided.
title A Demonstration of ARCANE Reweighting: Reducing the Sign Problem in the MC@NLO Generation of $e^+ e^- \rightarrow q \bar{q} + 1\, jet$ Events
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08053