renormalization and factorization scales equal to photon transverse energy

Asked by amir

Hello madgraph developers

I wanted to generate a p p > a j [QCD] process with renormalization and factorization scales equal to photon transverse energy in a certain bin. may I ask if is it ok to set dynamical scale choice inside run card to 1 or should I use further line of hard code inside set scale.f file?:

         tmp=0d0
         do i=3,nexternal
            if((pp(0,i)+pp(3,i))*(pp(0,i)-pp(3,i)).eq.0d0) then
                tmp=tmp+et(pp(0,i))
            else
                tmp = tmp + 0d0
            endif
         enddo
         temp_scale_id='User-defined dynamical scale' ! use a meaningful string

if is it incorrect would you mind to help me on this?

cheers,
Amir

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Best Rikkert Frederix (frederix) said :
#1

Dear Amir,

The momenta in the 'scale_global_reference' function are the momenta as they enter the respective matrix elements. For the pp>aj[QCD] process the 3rd momentum is the momentum of the photon. Hence, setting the scale to

sqrt(pp(1,3)**2+pp(2,3)**2)

sets it to the transverse momentum of the photon.

Best regards,
Rikkert

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amir (amir-shabanpoor92) said :
#2

Dear Rikkert

Thank you very much for your help and support

Cheers,
Amir

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 11:12 PM Rikkert Frederix <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Your question #683394 on MadGraph5_aMC@NLO changed:
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> Status: Open => Answered
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> Rikkert Frederix proposed the following answer:
> Dear Amir,
>
> The momenta in the 'scale_global_reference' function are the momenta as
> they enter the respective matrix elements. For the pp>aj[QCD] process
> the 3rd momentum is the momentum of the photon. Hence, setting the scale
> to
>
> sqrt(pp(1,3)**2+pp(2,3)**2)
>
> sets it to the transverse momentum of the photon.
>
> Best regards,
> Rikkert
>
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amir (amir-shabanpoor92) said :
#3

Thanks Rikkert Frederix, that solved my question.