Bad integer for item 15 in list in ttbar+jj FxFx

Asked by Hannes

Hi,

in ATLAS we are trying to develop a ttbar+up-to-2-jet FxFx setup.
A setup with one jet works but for two jets we get the following crash:

    Error termination. Backtrace:
    At line 410 of file reweight_xsec_events.f
    Fortran runtime error: Bad integer for item 15 in list input

As it takes significant CPU time to get to this part, we were wondering whether you have any pointers on how to debug this.

We set up the process with:

    import model loop_sm-no_b_mass
    define p = p b b~
    define j = p
    generate p p > t t~ [QCD] @0
    add process p p > t t~ j [QCD] @1
    add process p p > t t~ j j [QCD] @2

And make the following modifications to the default run card:

    'maxjetflavor' : 5,
    'parton_shower' : 'PYTHIA8',
    'dynamical_scale_choice' : '10', #user-defined scale -> Dominic's definition of mt+1/2*(pt^2+ptx^2)
    'ickkw' : 3,
    'jetradius' : 1.0,
    'ptj' : 10,
    'etaj' : 10

Cheers,
Hannes

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Olivier Mattelaer (olivier-mattelaer) said :
#1

Hi,

Which version of MG5aMC are you using here? This sounds an old bug to me (but Rikkert would know better)

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Hannes (hannes3) said :
#2

Hi, 3.5.1, sorry for leaving that out

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Rikkert Frederix (frederix) said :
#3

Hi Hannes,

This was fixed in 3.5.3 (seems like it was missing from the UpdateNotes.txt -- my bad).

The fix is rather small and you could apply it directly to your code if you don't want to download and regenerate the events for your tt+multijets. Just apply the fix in your process folder and use the '--reweight_only' flag when launching the event generation.

The fix can be found here:
https://github.com/mg5amcnlo/mg5amcnlo/commit/b50488375f2c1e6032cbad0749a37c57ae825bf0

Best,
Rikkert

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Hannes (hannes3) said :
#4

Thanks Rikkert and Olivier!