Published 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

Deployment of a Matrix Element Method code for the ttH channel analysis on GPU's platform

  • 1. Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole polytechnique, Palaiseau (France)

Description

The observation of the associated production of the Higgs boson with two top quarks in proton-proton collisions is one of the highlights of the LHC Run 2. Driven by the theoretical description of the physics processes, the Matrix Element Method (MEM) consists in computing a probability that an event is compatible with the signal hypothesis (ttH) or with one of the background hypotheses. It is a powerful classifying tool requiring high dimensional integral computations. The deployment of our MEM production code on GPU's platform will be described. What follows will focus on the adaptation of the main components of the computations in OpenCL kernels, namely the Magraph matrix element code generator, VEGAS, and LHAPDF. Finally, the gain obtained on GPU's platforms compared with classical CPU's platforms will be assessed.

Availability note (English)

Available from https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2019/19/epjconf_chep2018_06028.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/6703605b4e78440490151fbf74a87ace

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
EPJ. Web of Conferences
Journal Volume
214
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
2100-014X

Conference

Title
23. International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics
Acronym
CHEP 2018
Dates
9-13 Jul 2018
Place
Sofia (Bulgaria)