Event generation
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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. Choosing a notation where denotes the weight of the th event, is the number of generated events, is the generated cross section value and denotes the average, the different conventions are[1]:
- meaning that
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The sums are over all generated events.
References
- ↑ Wolfgang Kilian, Thorsten Ohl, Jürgen Reuter: WHIZARD online user manual, section 11.3