Showering an NLO process with Pythia8 : Empty hepmc file

Asked by Özer Özdal

Dear experts,

I get an empty hepmc file when I try to shower with Pythia8 in NLO run. MadGrapgh doesn't crash or comes out any error as seen below. The problem only occurs for NLO processes and it works perfectly well for any LO process. I don't know what the problem is.

INFO: The /Users/oozdal/hepwork/MG5_aMC_v2_7_2/pptoll_NLO/Events/run_03/events.lhe.gz file has been generated.

INFO: Events generated
reweight -from_cards
decay_events -from_cards
INFO: Preparing MCatNLO run
INFO: Using LHAPDF v6.2.1 interface for PDFs
INFO: Compiling MCatNLO for PYTHIA8...
INFO: ... done
INFO: Showering events...
INFO: (Running in /Users/oozdal/hepwork/MG5_aMC_v2_7_2/pptoll_NLO/MCatNLO/RUN_PYTHIA8_4)
INFO: Idle: 0, Running: 1, Completed: 0 [ current time: 10h52 ]
INFO: Idle: 0, Running: 0, Completed: 1 [ 1.4s ]
INFO: Idle: 0, Running: 0, Completed: 0 [ current time: 10h52 ]
INFO: The file /Users/oozdal/hepwork/MG5_aMC_v2_7_2/pptoll_NLO/Events/run_03/events_PYTHIA8_0.hepmc.gz has been generated.
It contains showered and hadronized events in the HEPMC format obtained showering the parton-level event file /Users/oozdal/hepwork/MG5_aMC_v2_7_2/pptoll_NLO/Events/run_03/events.lhe.gz with PYTHIA8
INFO: Run complete
INFO:
quit
INFO:

Thanks,
Ozer

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Best Olivier Mattelaer (olivier-mattelaer) said :
#1

You should have the log file of pythia8 in this directory:
/Users/oozdal/hepwork/MG5_aMC_v2_7_2/pptoll_NLO/MCatNLO/

This will be helpfull to understand what's going on.

Cheers,

Olivier

PS: Maybe trying 2.7.3 might solve the issue, this sounds similar to a bug fix that I pushed in 2.7.3 but can not be sure.

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Özer Özdal (oozdal) said :
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Dear Olivier,

Now Pythia8 showers properly in both 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. The problem was about unknown PDF set CT18NLO with PDG ID 14400. Thanks.

Best,
Ozer

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Özer Özdal (oozdal) said :
#3

Thanks Olivier Mattelaer, that solved my question.