A multi-event interface for next-to-leading order calculations in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO

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Hauptverfasser: Frederix, Rikkert, Roiser, Stefan, Schöfbeck, Robert, Wettersten, Zenny, Zaro, Marco
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author Frederix, Rikkert
Roiser, Stefan
Schöfbeck, Robert
Wettersten, Zenny
Zaro, Marco
author_facet Frederix, Rikkert
Roiser, Stefan
Schöfbeck, Robert
Wettersten, Zenny
Zaro, Marco
contents We detail the implementation of a multi-event interface for next-to-leading order (NLO) calculations in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO, allowing tree-level scattering amplitudes for multiple phase space points to be evaluated in each call to the integrated NLO differential cross section during event generation. Additionally, a multithreaded implementation based on this multi-event interface where tree-level amplitudes are evaluated in parallel across multiple CPU threads is presented for the Monte Carlo generation of quantum chromodynamical (QCD) events. Although this work primarily concerns the implemented code, some algorithmic changes involving the order of the application of phase-space cuts and calls to different scattering amplitudes are included. The codebase currently supports multi-threaded execution, but these changes pave the way for continued data parallelism in the form of on-CPU SIMD instructions or SIMT GPU offloading. A study in the runtime fraction spent in different diagrammatic contributions across various processes suggests that NLO QCD event generation are computationally dominated by tree-level scattering amplitude evaluations, which we show are perfectly suited for data parallelisation.
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spellingShingle A multi-event interface for next-to-leading order calculations in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO
Frederix, Rikkert
Roiser, Stefan
Schöfbeck, Robert
Wettersten, Zenny
Zaro, Marco
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We detail the implementation of a multi-event interface for next-to-leading order (NLO) calculations in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO, allowing tree-level scattering amplitudes for multiple phase space points to be evaluated in each call to the integrated NLO differential cross section during event generation. Additionally, a multithreaded implementation based on this multi-event interface where tree-level amplitudes are evaluated in parallel across multiple CPU threads is presented for the Monte Carlo generation of quantum chromodynamical (QCD) events. Although this work primarily concerns the implemented code, some algorithmic changes involving the order of the application of phase-space cuts and calls to different scattering amplitudes are included. The codebase currently supports multi-threaded execution, but these changes pave the way for continued data parallelism in the form of on-CPU SIMD instructions or SIMT GPU offloading. A study in the runtime fraction spent in different diagrammatic contributions across various processes suggests that NLO QCD event generation are computationally dominated by tree-level scattering amplitude evaluations, which we show are perfectly suited for data parallelisation.
title A multi-event interface for next-to-leading order calculations in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09111