ALPGEN MC Generation at SPRACE

• Marco becomes expert like Thiago on the alpgen physics/software/running; Thiago is the official responsible at the generators group for ALPGEN (with oversight from Maurizio and myself and Roberto Ciericci)
• Marco with the help of Guillelmo-Gomez Ceballos from MIT, and Massimiliano Chiorboli from Catania (he knows how to run massive physics production in T2, I had him do this for trigger validation reasons in Catania and Bari) and Daniele Spiga (PhD student/CERN/Padova the expert on CRAB matters) will do some R+D on how to best produce these complicated MCs; (ProdAgent, CRAB, cmsdrive whatever) directly on a Tier2 and then exercise some workflows: move them to T1 for backup (and publication?) , publish them to two other Tier2s .
• Marco with Thiago will try to see how to put new physics (EDs and other composite models) in ALPGEN (with oversight from Maria Spiropulu) with a few simple examples that will be relevant to the ZZ and WW resonances (that Thiago/Flavia) are working.
• Objective: have ALPGEN working out of the box for production and that we deliver whatever the production team wants to them to produce these also centrally by ~May 2009.Sao Paolo T2 can become a center of ALPGEN production for CMS needs and distribution to the rest of the T2s in South and North America.
• Flavia to be as much as possible involved in the ALPGEN physics interface, etc (Thiago for training her and teaching her everything he knows)

Physics Motivation: According a discussion with Gino Isidori, he summarized the phenomenological situation (about the WW and WZ analyses) as it follows: Even if it might be that a Z'-like (inclusing RS graviton) resonance can decay to ttbar, the S constraint from EWPO implies that it has to be fermiofobic. At the contrary, even if ttbar is an allowed channel, WW and WZ are required in order to stabilize the EW physics. So, according to him (he wrote a first paper on this, he is writing a second in these days) WW is a must for any model with a strongly coupled new resonance. His conclusions, he said, are based on very general statements, not on specific model assumptions. He suggested to take care of the raising function in WW scattering. So, most probably, Thiago will need some assumption on the Higgs mass to control the shape of the SM bkg in the dijet invariant mass

The initial paper is here

• Marco will start looking whether this is possible these new higgless models with dibosons to be implemented in ALPGEN. Marco will start looking at the SM diboson implementation in ALPGEN and see where to kludge the new couplings there and also put the RS graviton from Pythia to Alpgen (i.e. instead of pp->WW , pp->RS_G->WW or pp->H->WW.)

Talking with Gillelmo : The way that ALPGEN is used in ProdAgent is as follows: cmsGen (a simple python script) can run AlpGen or MadGraph (the first one faster when dealing with a great number of jets). It consumes a configuration file grid2.file and generates Weighted and Unweighted events. They usually throw away Weighted events, using Unweighted as input for cmsRun.

There is another way, cmsRun can read this data directly from MCDB (ascii files), but the steps to construct this ascii files are described here.

The way to run in a Tier-2 a private Monte-Carlo production is 1)using crab or 2)using ProdAgent. In the first one we have to specify manually all the steps. In the last one you have only to generate the workflow, and running it should be so simple as running input Workflow.xml. This is the way chosen by the Higgs groups, like Aachen. The difficult part is installing and configuring ProdAgent properly. The steps should be:

• Install and configure ProdAgent properly in our farm;
• Install a local DBS for the local stored production;
• understand how to generate the Workflow.xml;
• understand how to modify grid2.file and/or cmsGen in order to optimize/include new Physics there.

After that (and the upgrade of our storage) we can seriously think in joining Exotica group.