MCnet

European Union funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network developing and training in MC event generator physics for particle physics in the LHC era and beyond

[MCnet @hepmcnet]

We still have spaces left on the 2023 MCnet summer school in Durham, UK.

Training in the theory and hands-on use of state-of-the-art event generators and tools: ideal for PhD students and postdocs wanting to upskill in MC!

Registration closes 12 June. https://t.co/QfO0cSnf8Q

[MCnet @hepmcnet]

To our surprise as much as yours, #Professor 2.4.0 just dropped, now (finally) with Python3 and iMinuit2 compatibility and a few other improvements! https://t.co/ev2Rgdvm0g

[MCnet @hepmcnet]

#LHAPDF 6.5.4 just released, with a bunch of useful improvements and fixes in the build system, Python interface, API, and MPI v3 support. Get it while it's hot!

[UCLHighEnergyPhysics @UCLHEP]

Lectureship in Experimental Particle Physics
https://t.co/vE32zUYlRA

[Andy Buckley (@[email protected]) @agbuckley]

It's been a looong time since we dropped in on the GENIE workshop to explain Professor & MC tunings, but great to see the results in this very comprehensive paper (which I missed last year!) 👍 https://t.co/Foh8rJgrKT

[Andy Buckley (@[email protected]) @agbuckley]

Behold, Jamie Yellen's amazing animation of our signal-region-combiner graph algorithm from https://t.co/KfpzV1D5ls

[MCnet @hepmcnet]

NEW! MCnet code and algorithm efficiency work that can speed up precision MC generation production setups by 10-50x. That's worth a data centre or two... https://t.co/LZS1GHTq5Y

[MCnet @hepmcnet]

Our proposed community standard for event-generator systematics weights conventions, updated in response to @SciPost_Physics referee feedback #peerreviewFTW https://t.co/unX01auoMv

[Andy Buckley (@[email protected]) @agbuckley]

New paper on arXiv! https://t.co/KfpzV1CxvU Proud of this: we extend a Les Houches 2019 project and design a new graph alg for identifying the best-expected allowed combination of BSM signal regions to use in a recast. Moar power, excellent complexity scaling, public code 👍

[MCnet @hepmcnet]

We're pleased to announce the 2022 network meeting taking place @UniGraz from September 21st to September 23rd 2022. Please register at https://t.co/IMg7aSMLe8 . We will have several topical sessions on the network's current and future research.

[MCnet @hepmcnet]

Argh. As has been rapidly pointed out, a factor of 100 dropped out of the default CL percentage value in 6.5.0.

We've fixed this in an emergency 6.5.1 patch: please use this instead.

Uncertainty calculations now also added to our basic release-validation script... 😬

[MCnet @hepmcnet]

LHAPDF version 6.5.0 is now available from all good retailers (aka https://t.co/dnKsIXAHMO). Various build-system fixes for new Python versions, ability to chain index files, and a major new feature: extended ErrorType syntax for param-variation combinations

[Andy Buckley (@[email protected]) @agbuckley]

Epic Rivet @rivetyoda analysis coding from @ATLASexperiment -- almost all recent SM papers covered!

Still a bunch of Higgs and Top measurements it'd be great to have (pretty please! plus BSM & HI), but this is brilliant. Great news for @ConturHEP etc.

https://t.co/o2iSgs8gcc

[MCnet @hepmcnet]

A new #Contur-related preprint today for your enjoyment: https://t.co/IjcrvgiM9p @jonmbutterworth @suchi_kulkarni

[Andy Buckley (@[email protected]) @agbuckley]

A very welcome step back toward in-person collaboration: the @hepmcnet CEDAR UK Xmas Hackathon in North Berwick over the last 2 days.

Thanks to the Marine Hotel for keeping us safe & cared for, and all participants for enthusiasm, good company, and sticking to the rules

[Andy Buckley (@[email protected]) @agbuckley]

Just released new versions of particle-ID decoding utils: MCUtils 1.3.5 for C++ https://t.co/u1D8KamcEB , and PyPDT https://t.co/TOJcUK9OB1 for Python. Merge requests welcome on both!

[MCnet @hepmcnet]

Great development, @rivetyoda and @inspirehep!

[INSPIRE HEP @inspirehep]

INSPIRE now links to Rivet analyses references:
https://t.co/8ptFqPEl1w
The Rivet page for a particular article contains a simulator-compatible version of the collaboration's original analysis code. The Rivet code can then be run on theory simulations.
[https://t.co/VG3OlD949n]

[MCnet @hepmcnet]

New phenomenology postdoc advertised in Lund, overlapping with MCnet members and work on precision high-energy MC: https://t.co/er6gIcq6I7