Introduction

The AlpgenInterface is undergoing a complete restructuring, according to the new guidelines for GeneratorInterfaces. This page documents this restructuring

New Features

  • Separation Source-Producer
    • Source: reads UNW events file, format shifts to LHE, creates LHEEventProduct and LHERUnInfoProduct.
    • Producer: parton showering, matching, hadronization.

Validation

  • What with using the SLHA mass line? Is this doing something bad? Not at all up till now. However, from the update notes from Pythia 6.420:
    PYSLHA: protected some internal PYTHIA particles from read-in of 
        SLHA mass and DECAY tables, in order to avoid incompatibilities with 
        Pythia's hadronization and hadron decay machinery. The SLHA interface is
        intended for read-in of non-SM physics, so we do not consider it a
        strong restriction to protect Pythia's special internal codes and
        all SM particles with masses less than 20 GeV from being
        overwritten by SLHA read-in. People who do wish to alter, say,
        the decay tables of B mesons, should not use the SLHA tables to
        accomplish this, but rather use Pythia's internal updating routine
        PYUPDA.  A modification of the b-quark mass, for example, would
        need to be handled through the PMAS array.
    

  • W + jets
    • Basic mother-daughter relations validation.
    • Basic INORAD validation.
  • Z + jets
    • Basic mother-daughter relations validation.
    • Basic INORAD validation.
      • Why do we get the complete event record seen by UPVETO?
      • I don't know, but Alpgen correctly disregards the six initial particles before passing them to the calorimeter.
      • It also correctly disregards the daughters of INORAD'd particles.
  • ttbar + jets
    • Basic mother daughter relations validation.
    • Basic INORAD validation.
    • Why is it freezing? Why does it stop freezing when I use FourVectors instead of doing calculations manually.
    • Always bitten by FORTRAN/C-style array differences.

Issues

  • The PYUPRE subroutine:
C...PYUPRE
C...Rearranges contents of the HEPEUP commonblock so that
C...mothers precede daughters and daughters of a decay are
C...listed consecutively.
In standalone Pythia, a call to UPEVNT is always followed by a call to PYUPRE. In order to mimic that behavior, we do the same in AlpgenInterface.
  • What is the "phantom event" at the beginning of DBPART?
    • Solved: it was an extra call of DBPART in a wrong place.
  • How to make sure the PDF sets are chosen consistently in ALPGEN and PYTHIA?
    • Answer: we don't. See what happened in the 2009 ALPGEN gamma+jets by Sushil.
  • How to make sure the CM energy is consistently kept around?
    • Answer: we don't. There is no way to access the CM energy from within the JetMatching class.
  • What ALPGEN uses for the jet clustering is the HEPEVT common block, NOT the HEPEUP.
  • Problems with merging the files in production.
    • LHERunInfoProduct has to correctly treat ALPGEN headers.

ALPGEN processes

  • For ALPGEN v2.13
  • Notice that all of those processes can have + jets in the final state. For some processes this is explicitly mentioned.

IHRD Prefix Meaning
1 wqq W + pair of heavy quarks
2 zqq Z + pair of heavy quarks
3 wjet W + jets
4 zjet Z + jets
5 vbjet Multi vector bosons (W,Z,H,photon)
6 2Q Pair of heavy quarks
7 4Q Two pairs of heavy quarks
8 QQh Pair of heavy quarks + Higgs
9 njet Pure multijets
10 wcjet W + single charm
11 phjet photon + jets
12 hjet Higgs + jets
13 top Single top
14 wphjet W + photon + jets
15 wphqq W + photon + pair of heavy quarks
16 2Qph Pair of heavy quarks + photon

  • Functions to fix the Event Record:
void fixEventWZ(lhef::HEPEUP &hepeup);
void fixEventMultiBoson(lhef::HEPEUP &hepeup);
void fixEventTTbar(lhef::HEPEUP &hepeup);
void fixEventHiggsTTbar(lhef::HEPEUP &hepeup);
void fixEventSingleTop(lhef::HEPEUP &hepeup, double mb, int itopprc);

FORTRAN routines

Here we describe the FORTRAN routines responsible for the matching in standalone matching.

UPINIT routine

  • I/O
  • Call ALSHCD - returns "PYT"
  • I/O
    • Read until "****"
    • Read IHRD
    • Read six masses (mc, mb, mt, mw, mz, mh)
    • Read key-value pairs (PARVAL[NTMP] array)
    • Read until "****"
    • Read xsec, xsec_error, number of unw events, luminosity
  • Call AHSPAR to setup parameters - this sets EBEAM.
    • This sets every parameter except IHRD, the masses and the jet clustering parameters.
  • PBEAM1=DBLE(EBEAM), PBEAM2=DBLE(EBEAM), IH1=1 --> these are tramp variables to set up HEPRUP later.
  • Call PDFCONVH (what does it do?)
  • Call ALSHCD
  • Prepares INORAD
  • Gets jet matching criteria
  • Sets up the HEPRUP
  • Calls ALSHIN (passes the six masses to PYTHIA)
  • Sets LPRUP (originally it was 661, now it has a meaning).

The HEPRUP has to be setup as:

Parameter Value
BEAM p,p,energy of CM
PDFGUP(1,2) -1
IDWTUP 3
XSECUP(1) AVGWGT
XERRUP(1) ERRWGT
XMAXUP(1) AVGWGT

UPEVNT routine

UPVETO routine

-- ThiagoTomei - 20 Mar 2009

Topic revision: r14 - 2009-04-02 - ThiagoTomei
 

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