MG5+Delphes Tutorial - Pisa September 2018

Pre-requisites

To successfully run this tutorial the following prerequisite packages should be installed:

• gcc/tcl:

For linux users gcc/tcl should be already installed. For Mac users you should install XCode.

• ROOT:

can be downloaded from ​https://root.cern.ch/downloading-root Go on latest release, and download a version under "Binary distributions".

• Pythia8:

following instructions from here: https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/delphes/wiki/WorkBook/Pythia8

Event generation with Pythia8 + Delphes sample

This exercise will teach how to configure the Pythia8 event generator for a simple production of e+e- -> ZH events. Next, you will generate events and simulate the detector with the DelphesPythia8 executable.

0) Stare at the following example "examples/Pythia8/configNoLHE.cmnd" of Pythia8 configuration file. In this card identify the parameters that control:

• the number of events to be generated
• the particle beam type
• the center of mass energy
• the physics process to be generated

1) Create a Pythia8 configuration card that generates N=10k events of ee->Zh->mumu at sqrt(s)=240 GeV.

The identifier for the above process can be found in the Pythia8 manual:

​http://home.thep.lu.se/~torbjorn/pythia81html/Welcome.html

Hint1: the code of electron (positron) is 11 (-11).

Hint2: the Z decay can be forced to muons with the following syntax:

23:onMode = off
23:onIfAny = 13 -13

2) Produce Delphes events using the above Pythia8 configuration (this command should run Pythia and Delphes on the fly!), using the CEPC detector card "cards/delphes_card_CEPC.tcl"

Hint: find the command to be executed here (adapting it to the above Delphes and Pythia8 cards of course):

https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/delphes/wiki/WorkBook/Pythia8

Simple Tree analysis

1) Open Delphes ROOT tree and explore the branches

root -l delphes_ee_zh_zmumu.root
gSystem->Load("libDelphes");
TBrowser t;

Note: Most objects are described in terms of pp specific variables (PT, Eta, Phi). This is simply for historical reasons since Delphes was developed originally as a tool for LHC physics. To plot ee-like variables, one needs to write the translation (or make use of the very useful TLorentzVector of ROOT, see part III).

2) Interactively Draw the "leading" muon pt and energy, the muon multiplicity and the jet multiplicity. Do you understand these distributions?

ex:

Delphes->Draw("Muon[0].PT")

Hint: To calculate the energy approximate the muon as a massless particle and express the energy as function of pT and Eta.

Write a simple analysis macro

0) Write down the formula for the recoil Higgs mass.

1) You can find a simple analysis macro in "example/Example1.py". It can be executed like this:

python examples/Example1.py delphes_ee_zh_zmumu.root

This Example1.py macro does not do anything interesting for this problem (it most likely produce an empty plot). You should open it with a text editor, and write a small analysis that selects two muons and reconstructs and plot the recoil Higgs mass.

Modify the Delphes detector card

You have now produced a Delphes simulated event with the hypothetical CEPC default detector configuration.

1) Can you think of two detector parameters that drive the performance of this measurement?

2) Identify where they are configured in the delphes detector card

3) Create two new detector configurations by degrade these two parameters by a sizable factor.

4) Reproduce a Delphes sample with these new configurations and observe the impact on the recoil mass distribution.