tWZ production gets stuck while setting up grids

Asked by Andrej Saibel

Dear all,

I'm trying to run tWZ production with MG5 2.9.9 or 3.3.1. Please find the proc_card below.
The production gets stuck after "setting up grids" and never progresses beyond that step even if I ask for 100 events and require accuracy -1. I have waited up to three days.

Help or advice would be very appreciated.

12:53:40 INFO: Poles successfully cancel for 20 points over 20 (tolerance=1.0e-05)
12:53:40 INFO: Starting run
12:53:40 INFO: Using 8 cores
12:53:40 INFO: Cleaning previous results
12:53:40 INFO: Generating events without running the shower.
12:53:41 INFO: Setting up grids
12:53:42 INFO: Idle: 24, Running: 8, Completed: 0 [ current time: 12h53 ]

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set group_subprocesses Auto
set ignore_six_quark_processes False
set low_mem_multicore_nlo_generation False
set complex_mass_scheme False
set include_lepton_initiated_processes False
set gauge unitary
set loop_optimized_output True
set loop_color_flows False
set max_npoint_for_channel 0
set default_unset_couplings 99
set max_t_for_channel 99
set zerowidth_tchannel True
set nlo_mixed_expansion True
import model loop_sm-no_b_mass
define p = g u c d s u~ c~ d~ s~
define j = g u c d s u~ c~ d~ s~
define l+ = e+ mu+
define l- = e- mu-
define vl = ve vm vt
define vl~ = ve~ vm~ vt~
define p = 21 2 4 1 3 -2 -4 -1 -3 5 -5 # pass to 5 flavors
define j = p
define p = g u c d s b u~ c~ d~ s~ b~
define j = g u c d s b u~ c~ d~ s~ b~
define w = w+ w-
define ttbar = t t~
generate p p > ttbar w Z [QCD]
output -f -nojpeg

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

Hi,

Five flavor computation at NLO with "W" in the final state need to use MadSTR to avoid the issue associated to the additional top resonance (see the limitation of our code). Since this seems to be your case, (not using MadSTR and five flavor) I would bet that this is your issue and that the code fails to converge and therefore enters an infinite loop.

Cheers,

Olivier

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Andrej Saibel (asaibel) said :
#2

Thanks Olivier Mattelaer, that solved my question.