Matrix element from Madgraph vs analytical
Hi everyone,
I am quite new using Madgraph and so I have a lot of doubts, therefore I would like to say sorry in advance in case I ask very silly things..
I want to compare my results for the process q qbar -> t tbar, e.g. u ubar -> t tbar, being the q massless and the t massive. So, I got by hand the squared matrix element as follows:
M² = (2/9)*g_s²*[ 1 + (1-(4*m_
So I use the standalone code in Madgraph as follows:
>> generate u u~ > t t~
>> output standalone uubarttbar
>> launch
and I get
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n E px py pz m
1 0.5000000E+03 0.0000000E+00 0.0000000E+00 0.5000000E+03 0.0000000E+00
2 0.5000000E+03 0.0000000E+00 0.0000000E+00 -0.5000000E+03 0.0000000E+00
3 0.5000000E+03 0.1040730E+03 0.4173556E+03 -0.1872274E+03 0.1730000E+03
4 0.5000000E+03 -0.1040730E+03 -0.4173556E+03 0.1872274E+03 0.1730000E+03
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Matrix element = 0.61562818665255248 GeV^ 0
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from that I infere that theta = 112°, and that using the alpha_s = 0.118 and m_top = 173 GeV that is using Madgraph, by entering those variables in my expression above, it should yield
M² = 0.4096722
which nothing has to do with the resulting matrix element from the output of Madgraph... I would appreciate really much if someone could shed some light on which one is the problem.. or if you know somewhere I can look on.. I have searched for some similar problems but couldn't find a solution.
Thank you in advance!
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