Event generation

Event generation refers to the computer-based simulation of events, usually using the Monte Carlo method and an event generator.

Choice of event weight normalisation

There are basically four different choices to normalise event weights ($\langle \cdots \rangle$ denotes the average):

1. $\langle w_i \rangle = 1$ meaning that $\langle \sum_i w_i \rangle = N$ 2. $\langle w_i \rangle = \sigma$ meaning that $\langle \sum_i w_i \rangle = N\sigma$ 3. $\langle w_i \rangle = 1/N$ meaning that $\langle \sum_i w_i \rangle = 1$ 3. $\langle w_i \rangle = \sigma/N$ meaning that $\langle \sum_i w_i \rangle = \sigma$