Typing "0/done" and waiting 90 seconds do different things

Asked by Marco Menen

Hi all,

I was trying to generate a polarized W-boson decay with MadGraph 3.5.1 and noticed something odd.
My commands are the following:

generate w+{0} > u d~
output test
launch

Then I activated parton shower with Pythia8306 and disabled everything else.

Now when it comes to modifying the different cards and I simply type "0" or "done" in the console to advance, MadGraph will tell me
"ERROR: Parton-Shower are not yet ready for such proton component definition. Parton-shower will be switched off"
and therefore stop after the initial event generation.

However, if I just wait for 90 seconds instead of typing anything, this error is not raised and the parton shower will just run normally, giving me a .hepmc file.

Now I am pretty sure that this file is not to be trusted, but I nonetheless wanted to bring up this behaviour since I find it rather strange. Maybe one of the authors is able to reproduce this?

Kind regards

Marco

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Olivier Mattelaer (olivier-mattelaer) said :
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Thanks a lot for reporting things, today I'm in holliday but I will check why the validity of the cards are not checked in that case.

Thanks so much,

Olivier

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Olivier Mattelaer (olivier-mattelaer) said :
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So here is a patch: https://github.com/mg5amcnlo/mg5amcnlo/commit/b8c78ff2ccf3793fc7a4ed6929a41858f713b898

But I have seem some weird warning today when running that version, so looks like it has some side effect that I will need to catch/understand

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Best Olivier Mattelaer (olivier-mattelaer) said :
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here is the patch to avoid the side effect of the first patch:
https://github.com/mg5amcnlo/mg5amcnlo/commit/2537b6c9ef316d175aeface747621fd82a4aaad4

Thanks,

Olivier

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Marco Menen (mmenen) said :
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Thanks Olivier Mattelaer, that solved my question.