NLO cross-section for SM processes

Dear Didier,
let me ask you some more questions about this process, in order to help you better.
what exactly are you interested in? in particular, why are you vetoing photons and z?
At which stage you have a job that takes so much? grid set-up / integration / event generation?
Are you changing any parameter in the run/param cards or in the code?

Thanks!

Cheers,

Marco

Dear Didier,
is there any news on this question?
Thanks,

Marco

Hi Marco,

first of all thank you very much for your reply and very sorry for not replying back to your questions earlier

What I am trying to do is to calculate the NLO/LO ratio of cross-sections of the interfering background of Y(-4/3e) vector-like quarks. I did not reply sooner because it was still not clear which processes exactly are participating in that interference. This is now cleared up and all those processes can be generated with the following command:

define p = g u c d s u~ c~ d~ s~ b b~
define j = g u c d s u~ c~ d~ s~
generate p p > p p > j w- b / p t t~ z h a TWB^2==4

Where TWB^2 is the square coupling order referring to tWb vertices.

Before I deal with trying to use the square coupling order in a NLO generation (not sure if it even works) I am trying the following generation, which also includes several processes that do not participate in the interference, but I think that is ok as a first approach - in any case I want to find out if the NLO/LO cross-section is compatible with unity or if there is a considerable deviation.

define bb = b b~
generate bb p > w- b j [QCD]

With these command MG doesn't seem to be able to compile the P0* directories. This is the tail of the output:

generate 16:11:31 INFO: Starting run
generate 16:11:31 INFO: Compiling the code
generate 16:11:32 INFO: Using built-in libraries for PDFs
generate 16:11:32 INFO: Compiling source...
generate 16:11:41 INFO: ...done, continuing with P* directories
generate 16:11:41 INFO: Compiling StdHEP (can take a couple of minutes) ...
generate 16:12:07 INFO: ...done.
generate 16:12:07 INFO: Compiling directories...
generate 16:12:07 INFO: Compiling on 1 cores
generate 16:12:07 INFO: Compiling P0_bd_wmbu...
generate 16:12:09 WARNING: fct <function compile_dir at 0x25c9668> does not return 0. Starts to stop the code in a clean way.

If you could provide me with a hint of why this is the case, that would help me further.

Thanks a lot in advance
Didier

Hi Didier-Alexandre,
for the NLO generation, which model are you using? the default sm (and loop-sm which is loaded automatically when you do NLO) has a massive b. Since you have b's in the initial state, you should load the loop_sm-no_b_mass model before generating the process...
Does it work?

cheers,

Marco

Hi Marco,

thanks for your answer.

I tried your suggestion. Indeed it makes sense to use that model since I am using the 5-flavour scheme. Unfortunately, that makes no difference on the problem I am facing. The production still gets stuck at the same place, that is, at the compilation of the P0* directories.

Cheers,
Didier

did you activate the complex-mass scheme (set complex_mass_scheme True) before the generation? you have intermediate resonances, so you need to activate it...
also, look at section 3 here
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.01178.pdf
for more details.
Cheers,

Marco