Modelling and computational improvements to the simulation of single vector-boson plus jet processes for the ATLAS experiment

• Titel: Modelling and computational improvements to the simulation of single vector-boson plus jet processes for the ATLAS experiment
• Mitwirkende: Aad, Georges [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Baltes, Lisa Marie [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Bartels, Falk [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Castillo, Florencia Luciana [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Czurylo, Marta [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Rio, Fernando del [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Dittmeier, Sebastian [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Dunford, Monica [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Franchino, Silvia [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Klassen, Martin [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Mkrtchyan, Tigran [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Ott, Philipp [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Rassloff, Damir Fabrice [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Rodriguez Bosca, Sergi [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Sauer, Christof [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Schöning, André [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Schultz-Coulon, Hans-Christian [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Sothilingam, Varsiha [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Stamen, Rainer [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Starovoitov, Pavel [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Vigani, Luigi [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Weber, Sebastian [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Wessels, Martin [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: Zinßer, Joachim [VerfasserIn]
• Körperschaft: ATLAS Collaboration [VerfasserIn]
• Verf.angabe: The ATLAS collaboration
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: August 5, 2022
• Umfang: 61 S.
• Fussnoten: The ATLAS collaboration: G. Aad, L.M. Baltes, F. Bartels, F.L. Castillo, M.M. Czurylo, F. Del Rio, S.J. Dittmeier, M.Dunford, S. Franchino, M. Klassen, T. Mkrtchyan, P.S. Ott, D.F Rassloff, S. Rodriguez Bosca, C. Sauer, A. Schoening, H-C. Schultz-Coulon, V. Sothilingam, R. Stamen, P. Starovoitov, L. Vigani, S.M. Weber, M. Wessels, J. Zinßer [und 2841 weitere] ; Gesehen am 24.02.2023
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Journal of high energy physics
• Ort Quelle: Berlin : Springer, 1997
• Jahr Quelle: 2022
• Band/Heft Quelle: (2022), 8, Artikel-ID 89, Seite 1-61
• ISSN Quelle: 1029-8479
• DOI: doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2022)089
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Hadron-Hadron Scattering
• K10plus-PPN: 1837313164

Abstract

This paper presents updated Monte Carlo configurations used to model the production of single electroweak vector bosons (W, Z/γ∗) in association with jets in proton-proton collisions for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Improvements pertaining to the electroweak input scheme, parton-shower splitting kernels and scale-setting scheme are shown for multi-jet merged configurations accurate to next-to-leading order in the strong and electroweak couplings. The computational resources required for these set-ups are assessed, and approximations are introduced resulting in a factor three reduction of the per-event CPU time without affecting the physics modelling performance. Continuous statistical enhancement techniques are introduced by ATLAS in order to populate low cross-section regions of phase space and are shown to match or exceed the generated effective luminosity. This, together with the lower per-event CPU time, results in a 50% reduction in the required computing resources compared to a legacy set-up previously used by the ATLAS collaboration. The set-ups described in this paper will be used for future ATLAS analyses and lay the foundation for the next generation of Monte Carlo predictions for single vector-boson plus jets production.