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September 22, 2025Physical Review Letters3 citations

QCD Theory Meets Information Theory

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BABenoît AssiSHStefan HoecheKLKyle Lee

Key Points

  • The developed technique reweights Monte Carlo simulations to achieve better consistency with quantum chromodynamics inputs and their uncertainties.
  • By minimizing an information-theoretic quantity, the method systematically includes uncertainties absent in traditional Monte Carlo predictions.
  • Event-shape observables at electron-positron colliders demonstrate the efficacy of the technique, particularly using the thrust calculation.
  • The analysis reveals significant insights into logarithmic moments of event shapes, bridging a gap in collider physics literature.

Abstract

We present a novel technique to incorporate precision calculations from quantum chromodynamics into fully differential particle-level Monte Carlo simulations. By minimizing an information-theoretic quantity subject to constraints, our reweighted Monte Carlo incorporates systematic uncertainties absent in individual Monte Carlo predictions, achieving consistency with the theory input in precision and its estimated systematic uncertainties. Our method can be applied to arbitrary observables known from precision calculations, including multiple observables simultaneously. It generates strictly positive weights, thus offering a clear path to statistically powerful and theoretically precise computations for current and future collider experiments. As a proof of concept, we apply our technique to event-shape observables at electron-positron colliders, leveraging existing precision calculations of thrust. Our analysis highlights the importance of logarithmic moments of event shapes, which have not been previously studied in the collider physics literature.

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Assi et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d46fdc31b076d99fa6a62dhttps://doi.org/10.1103/gf42-qzd9
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