14–18 Sept 2026
Europe/Vienna timezone

Too good to go: Upcycling Phase-Space Points for Multijet Processes

15 Sept 2026, 13:50
20m

Speaker

Konrad Helms (Georg August University of Göttingen)

Description

Accurate sampling of multi-particle phase spaces is a major bottleneck in
high-energy-physics simulations at the LHC, especially for processes with
many final-state particles where matrix-element evaluations become
prohibitively expensive. We introduce a stacked training strategy for
phase-space point generators that cuts the training cost dramatically while
delivering improved sampling performance. This method exploits the
nested structure of a factorised phase-space parametrisation
$\Phi_{N+1} = \Phi_{N} \times \Phi_{1}$
property of the $(N+1)$-particle phase-space, so that a higher-multiplicity
phase space can be constructed from a lower-multiplicity one, effectively
transferring the knowledge of a low-dimensional sampler to a
higher-dimensional one. We demonstrate the approach on
Drell-Yan and $gg \to t\overline{t} + \text{gluons}$
processes. Because the augmentation is used only to initialise the proposal
distribution, exact event weighting preserves unbiased Monte Carlo estimates
of physical observables.

Authors

Konrad Helms (Georg August University of Göttingen) Steffen Schumann Dr Timo Janßen (Georg August University of Göttingen)

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