Calculated width doesn't scale with a_s as expected
Dear MG authors,
I am using a model (provided by B. Fuks) that adds a spin-1 color octet to the SM, in order to reproduce the Pythia8 KKgluon model.
As I want to validate it, I need to check the predicted width matches the one predicted by P8.
The width depends on alpha_s, which has to be evaluated at the mass of the resonance (2TeV). In P8, a_s(2TeV)=0.094, so I set it in MG2.9.5 using:
set WVo auto # width
set pdlabel lhapdf
set lhaid 247000
set use_syst False
set as 0.094
My understanding is alpha_s=0.094 is used only during the initialization, ie for the width calculation.
Strangely the obtained width does not match the one of P8.
Investigating this, I found that the dependence of width with respect to a_s is not the linear one we can expect from the formula in decays.py:
Decay_Vo = Decay(name = 'Decay_Vo',
Here are the value of a_s and total width (after checking all the decays were opened for a_s>=0.01):
0.01, 61.57 GeV
0.02, 118.8
0.04, 221.7
0.08, 390.3
0.12, 521.7
Would you have a idea of what is going on here ?
Best,
Samuel
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