cross section and pt distribution for fixed-target

Hi,
I'd like to add few details about this.

* N is a Fe nucleus, mass was set to 52 GeV
* When imposing a cut on the missing momentum to be > 60 MeV, MG5 and CalcHep results agree exactly.
* Without the Pt cut, the Pt distribution looks equivalent for Pt > 55 MeV, while at lower Pt MG5 shows a discontinuity.
* The same discontinuity is visible for scalar mass = 10 MeV, muon beam=10 GeV and scalar mass = 10 MeV, muon beam=5 GeV

Hi,

Can you attach your scripts? Such that I can understand how you did your simulation, how you setup your card,...
And then be able to provide usefull comment. This will be more efficient than asking you the 20 different question that I have in mind (like how did you setup the scale, how did you define the PDF,...)

Cheers,

Olivier

Hi Olivier,

We simulated events through the interface. Is it good enough to just send you the banner information? (see attached) Also we can send you the model file and the scalar pt distribution we got.

Thanks!

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Hi,

The issue is likely related to those setup:

False = fixed_ren_scale ! if .true. use fixed ren scale
 False = fixed_fac_scale ! if .true. use fixed fac scale
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 91.188 = dsqrt_q2fact1 ! fixed fact scale for pdf1
 91.188 = dsqrt_q2fact2 ! fixed fact scale for pdf2
 -1 = dynamical_scale_choice ! Choose one of the preselected dynamical choices
 1.0 = scalefact ! scale factor for event-by-event scales

In the default dynamical scale choice, a hardcoded cut (at 4Gev^2) is present to avoid contribution from the non perturbative region.
I would be that this is what creates your cut. I would advise to either use the fixed scale, or to use another type of dynamical scale.
Assuming that such part of the phase-space is actually physical

Cheers,

Olivier

Hi Olivier,

Thanks a lot for your reply!

I have tried the fixed mass scale (fixed to the scalar mass) and dynamical scale choices 1, 2, 3, 4. They all give me similar results as the default scale, i.e., a cross section around 0.76 pb, which is half of the CalcHEP value. And the 50 MeV discontinuity in the scalar pt distribution is still there.

To be honest, I don't quite see why the scale factor should matter. There is no PDF. The nucleon is a newly defined particle in our model. And for the process, mu- n > mu- n s0, has QCD order equals zero.

Hi,

Ok wrong guess then. Could you send me the model then?
If you have a command file with the commands to edit the param_card/run_card , it will save me some time as well.

Cheers,

Olivier

Thanks Olivier! I have send the model and other necessary files to your email.

Hi,

I have run a lot of computation with your model and one can observe that you have huge cancelation between your two diagrams.
the s-channel is at 2.8e+06 while the full cross-section (after the negative interference) is at 0.7665.

As the tail is probed correctly (which is highly non trivial in this case), this should not be an issue of the adaptative method of the phase-space probing. (it is actually amazing how much the code adapt itself to do the tail correctly).

I have also add a cut preventing that such cancelation is too large (comparing the interference term to the amp square) and the same peak structure is present.

I have also put the cuts.f file in debug to check that no cut was wrongly cutting part of the phase-space.

So two solutions are remaining:
1) MG5 is correct (and that such dip is related to some of the scale of the process)
2) some of the invariant are too soft to be generated.

To check the second would you be able to plot the four invariant mass (3 t -channel and 1 s-channel) -- 2 invariant mass by Feynman diagram-- and compare those between MG5AMC and calchep. It can be very instructive to see how the difference translate on those 4 key variable.

Cheers,

Olivier

Dear Oliver,
thanks for your reply. I didn't get exactly which invariant masses you suggest to plot. Can you please specify in terms of the particles 4-momenta mu N -> mu' N' S

like: invariant mass of scalar and final state muon -> (S+mu')
         momentum transfer between final and initial state nucleon -> (N'-N)

THanks,
Andrea

Hi,

Do not have that much time to make the math.
Just look at the diagram, and plot the mass of each propagator.

(it might be that one of the propagator is the same between both diagram in that case, you will have only three diagram to plot)

Cheers,

Olivier

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> Dear Oliver,
> thanks for your reply. I didn't get exactly which invariant masses you suggest to plot. Can you please specify in terms of the particles 4-momenta mu N -> mu' N' S
>
> like: invariant mass of scalar and final state muon -> (S+mu')
> momentum transfer between final and initial state nucleon -> (N'-N)
>
> THanks,
> Andrea
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Hi,

First thanks to have send me the plot.
I can now confirm that the problem is on our side and that is a pure bug.

I have modified the phase-space integrator and can clearly observe that I have a continuous contribution if I do not allow madgraph to integrate according to the double T-channel diagram.
I have made other hack to the code who convinces me that this is not related to the multi-channelling procedure (which assumes that the interference is small --which is not the case here) but really to the t-channel diagram itself.

I still have to investigate to understand the reason of this issue with the t-channel. I will keep you updated when I would have more news on this. This seems a really complicated bug so I would need you to be patient.

If you want, I can obviously show you how to hack your MG5aMC process in order to have it work.

Cheers,

Olivier

Hi Olivier,

Thanks a lot for your investigation!

Yes. It will be great if you can show us how to hack so we can put MG5 in use.

Best,
Yiming

Sure, the file to modify is
SubProcesses/P1_mumn_mumns0

and here is the diff:

[P1_mumn_mumns0]$ diff matrix1.f matrix1.bk --context=10
*** matrix1.f 2018-08-03 23:36:35.000000000 +0200
--- matrix1.bk 2018-08-03 23:31:21.000000000 +0200
***************
*** 221,241 ****
              WRITE(HEL_BUFF,'(20i5)')(NHEL(II,I),II=1,NEXTERNAL)
  C Set right sign for ANS, based on sign of chosen helicity
              ANS=DSIGN(ANS,TS(I))
              GOTO 10
            ENDIF
          ENDDO
   10 CONTINUE
        ENDIF
        IF (MULTI_CHANNEL) THEN
          XTOT=0D0
- AMP2(1) = 0d0
          DO I=1,NDIAGS
            XTOT=XTOT+AMP2(I)
          ENDDO
          IF (XTOT.NE.0D0) THEN
            ANS=ANS*AMP2(SUBDIAG(1))/XTOT
          ELSE IF(ANS.NE.0D0) THEN
            WRITE(*,*) 'Problem in the multi-channeling. All amp2 are'
       $ //' zero but not the total matrix-element'
            STOP 1
          ENDIF

Cheers,

Olivier

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> Y Zhong posted a new comment:
> Hi Olivier,
>
> Thanks a lot for your investigation!
>
> Yes. It will be great if you can show us how to hack so we can put MG5
> in use.
>
> Best,
> Yiming
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