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SUMMARY:Parton showers for LHC physics and documentation of big simulation
  codes
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131112T110000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131112T120000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261028T224335Z
UID:indico-event-2024@indico.ific.uv.es
DESCRIPTION:VINCIA is a Monte Carlo parton shower\, which aims to provide 
 a fast and precise simulation of high-energy proton-proton collisions at L
 HC. It is a plug-in to PYTHIA 8\, currently under development. Parton show
 ers provide an approximation to the all-orders perturbative QCD series. Th
 e basic underlying algorithm is analogous to radioactive decay\, with a ce
 rtain ‘splitting probability’ that corresponds to the ‘decay probabi
 lity per unit time’. Modern parton showers also allow matching to exact 
 fixed-order calculations (Leading Order and Next-to Leading Order).\nThere
  is a considerable knowledge gap between the algorithm as explained in the
  papers and the actual workings of the code. In VINCIA\, we aim to documen
 t the code through high-level activity diagrams (flowcharts) in order to b
 ridge this gap. These diagrams will be generated automatically from specia
 l comments written alongside the c++ code by the developers. This is akin 
 to Doxygen documentation\, but incorporates knowledge of the execution flo
 w.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/2024/
LOCATION:IFIC Seminar Room 1.1.1
URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/2024/
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