Event Generators | Efe Yazgan

“Physics event generators are an essential component of the data processing and analysis chain of the LHC experiments. All of the scientific results of the LHC experiments, such as precision measurements of physics parameters and searches for new physics, depend significantly on the comparison of experimental measurements to theoretical predictions, in most cases computed using generator software” (from A. Valassi, E. Yazgan, J. McFayden, et al. “Challenges in Monte Carlo Event Generator Software for High-Luminosity LHC”, Comput. Softw. Big Sci. 5 (2021) 12 ).

Related convenerships:

Co-convener of the physics generators group of High Energy Physics Software Foundation (HSF) from 2020 to 2023.
Level 2 co-convener of the CMS event generators group from 2017 to 2019,
Level 3 co-convener of the CMS Physics Comparisons and Generator Tunes group from 2016 to 2017.

Papers and documents related to event generators:

CMS Collaboration, “CMS PYTHIA 8 colour reconnection tunes based on underlying-event data”, Euro. Phys. J. C 83 (2023) 587
F. Maltoni, et al. “TF07 Snowmass Report: Theory of Collider Phenomena”, arXiv:2210.02591, FERMILAB-FN-1203-QIS
J. M. Campbell et al. “Event Generators for High-Energy Physics Experiments”, arXiv:2203.11110
E. Yazgan, “Modelling the Data at the LHC”, Proceedings of Particles and Nuclei International Conference - PANIC2021, 5-10 September, 2021, arXiv:2110.02599 [hep-ex, hep-ph] , PoS(PANIC2021)410
E. Yazgan et al. “HL-LHC Computing Review Stage-2, Common Software Projects: Event Generators”, arXiv/2109.14938 [hep-ph, hep-ex, physics.comp-ph]; FERMILAB-PUB-21-526-OCIO-SCD-T
A. Valassi, E. Yazgan, J. McFayden, et al. “Challenges in Monte Carlo Event Generator Software for High-Luminosity LHC”, Comput. Softw. Big Sci. 5 (2021) 12
CMS Collaboration, “Extraction and validation of a new set of CMS PYTHIA8 tunes from underlying-event measurements”, arXiv:1903.12179 , Eur. Phys. J. C 80 (2020) 4.
J. Albrecht et al., “A Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s”, Comput. Softw. Big Sci. 3 (2019) 7 .
E. Yazgan, “Quantum Chromodynamics Monte Carlo Tuning Studies in CMS”, arXiv:1906.09952 [hep-ex] , in the proceedings of XXVII International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects - DIS2019, 8-12 April 2019, Torino, Italy Report number: CMS CR-2019/076, PoS(DIS2019)080 .
J. R. Andersen et al. “Les Houches 2017: Physics at TeV Colliders Standard Model Working Group Report”, arXiv:1803.07977 [hep-ph]

Presentations related to event generators:

E. Yazgan, QCD Monte Carlo model tuning studies with CMS data at 13 TeV at 27th Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects - DIS2019, Torino, Italy
E. Yazgan, News from CMS , at the PDF4LHC meeting, 13 December 2018, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
E. Yazgan, CMS Needs and Concerns , at the Physics Event Generator Computing Workshop, 26-28 November 2018, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
E. Yazgan, Event Generators in CMS, in CMS Heavy Flavor Tagging Workshop 2018, 11-13 April 2018, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
E. Yazgan, PDF Order and Pythia8 Tunes in CMS , at the PDF4LHC meeting, 6 September 2017, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
E. Yazgan, Other Follow-up points from LHC MC Workshop (intro followed by discussion) at The Working Group on Top Physics at the LHC (TOPLHCWG) meeting, 6-7 June 2017, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
E. Yazgan, Underlying event and Multi-Parton Interactions Tuning in CMS , at the ATLAS-CMS Monte Carlo Generators Workshop, 2-5 May 2017, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.