TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.6.1.007
TI  - A standard convention for particle-level Monte Carlo event-variation weights
PY  - 2023/02/08
UR  - https://www.scipost.org/SciPostPhysCore.6.1.007
JF  - SciPost Physics Core
JA  - SciPost Phys. Core
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
SP  - 007
A1  - Bothmann, Enrico
AU  - Buckley, Andy
AU  - Gütschow, Christian
AU  - Prestel, Stefan
AU  - Schönherr, Marek
AU  - Skands, Peter
AU  - Andersen, Jeppe R.
AU  - Bhattacharya, Saptaparna
AU  - Butterworth, Jonathan Mark
AU  - Chahal, Gurpreet Singh
AU  - Corpe, Louie
AU  - Gellersen, Leif
AU  - Gignac, Matthew
AU  - Höche, Stefan
AU  - Kar, Deepak
AU  - Krauss, Frank
AU  - Kretzschmar, Jan
AU  - Lönnblad, Leif
AU  - McFayden, Josh
AU  - Papaefstathiou, Andreas
AU  - Plätzer, Simon
AU  - Schumann, Steffen
AU  - Seymour, Michael H.
AU  - Siegert, Frank
AU  - Siódmok, Andrzej
AB  - Streams of event weights in particle-level Monte Carlo event generators are a convenient and immensely CPU-efficient approach to express systematic uncertainties in phenomenology calculations, providing systematic variations on the nominal prediction within a single event sample. But the lack of a common standard for labelling these variation streams across different tools has proven to be a major limitation for event-processing tools and analysers alike. Here we propose a well-defined, extensible community standard for the naming, ordering, and interpretation of weight streams that will serve as the basis for semantically correct parsing and combination of such variations in both theoretical and experimental studies.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.6.1.007,
	title={{A standard convention for particle-level Monte Carlo event-variation weights}},
	author={Enrico Bothmann and Andy Buckley and Christian Gütschow and Stefan Prestel and Marek Schönherr and Peter Skands and Jeppe R. Andersen and Saptaparna Bhattacharya and Jonathan Butterworth and Gurpreet Singh Chahal and Louie Corpe and Leif Gellersen and Matthew Gignac and Stefan Höche and Deepak Kar and Frank Krauss and Jan Kretzschmar and Leif Lönnblad and Josh McFayden and Andreas Papaefstathiou and Simon Plätzer and Steffen Schumann and Michael H. Seymour and Frank Siegert and Andrzej Siódmok},
	journal={SciPost Phys. Core},
	volume={6},
	pages={007},
	year={2023},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.6.1.007},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.6.1.007},
}

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• ¹ Enrico Bothmann,
• ² Andy Buckley,
• ³ Christian Gütschow,
• ⁴ Stefan Prestel,
• ⁵ Marek Schönherr,
• ⁶ Peter Skands,
• ⁵ Jeppe R. Andersen,
• ⁷ Saptaparna Bhattacharya,
• ³ Jonathan Mark Butterworth,
• ⁵ Gurpreet Singh Chahal,
• ⁸ Louie Corpe,
• ⁶ Leif Gellersen,
• ⁹ Matthew Gignac,
• ¹⁰ Stefan Höche,
• ¹¹ Deepak Kar,
• ⁵ Frank Krauss,
• ¹² Jan Kretzschmar,
• ⁴ Leif Lönnblad,
• ¹³ Josh McFayden,
• ¹⁴ Andreas Papaefstathiou,
• ¹⁵ Simon Plätzer,
• ¹ Steffen Schumann,
• ¹⁶ Michael H. Seymour,
• ¹⁷ Frank Siegert,
• ¹⁸ Andrzej Siódmok

• ¹ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen / University of Göttingen [GAU]
• ² University of Glasgow
• ³ University College London [UCL]
• ⁴ Lunds universitet / Lund University
• ⁵ Durham University
• ⁶ Monash University
• ⁷ Northwestern University [NUS]
• ⁸ Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire / European Organization for Nuclear Research [CERN]
• ⁹ University of California, Santa Cruz [UCSC]
• ¹⁰ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory [Fermilab]
• ¹¹ University of the Witwatersrand
• ¹² University of Liverpool
• ¹³ University of Sussex
• ¹⁴ Kennesaw State University [KSU]
• ¹⁵ Universität Graz / University of Graz [UBG]
• ¹⁶ University of Manchester
• ¹⁷ Technische Universität Dresden / Dresden University of Technology [TUD]
• ¹⁸ Uniwersytet Jagielloński / Jagiellonian University