Event output

A common workflow for particle physics Monte Carlo simulator is the generation f events files (in the LHE format) to be analyzed later on. Although the user may use the leading order template to write events in their own favourite way, madflow also provides an interface to MG5_aMC@NLO own event writer through the LheWriter class.

In order to avoid hanging the calculation because of disc i/o, the events are dumped asynchronously from the rest of the calculation. As a consequence, LheWriter instances should be always used within a context manager in order to avoid unpleasant situations in which the program exits before the full length of events has been dumped to disk.

from madflow.lhe_writer import LheWriter
from madflow.config import DTYPE
from tensorflow import py_function

with LheWriter("process_path", "process_name") as lhe_writer:

  def cross_section(xrand, weight=None, **kwargs):
    ...
    ps = phasespace(...)
    result = matrix.smatrix(ps, ...)
    py_function(func=lhe_writer.lhe_parser, inp=[ps, result*weight], Tout=DTYPe)
    return result

Note the usage of the TensorFlow function py_function. The usage of this function allows us to make calls to functions which haven’t got necessarily a GPU kernel. Take in consideration, however, that the usage of such functions will trigger a copy event from the hardware accelerator device to CPU.