2000 fb ^-1 SM Data Samples at Ecm= 250 & 500 GeV

Introduction

Stdhep files for 2000 fb ^-1 Standard Model data samples at Ecm= 250 & 500 GeV have been produced and are currently located on SLAC mass storage.
A complete list of the processes can be found in ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc2/whizdata/ILC250/doc/integ_index_0250_01 and
ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc2/whizdata/ILC500/doc/integ_index_0500_01 . The four columns are process_id, initial_state,
the variable IDRUPLH, and a bit indicating whether or not events were produced for this particular initial state polarization sign combination.
Subsets of these events are available via ftp; please see the table of derived stdhep files.

The events are produced assuming 100% polarization for the initial state electron and positron; different files for the same final state correspond to different polarization sign combinations. The variable IDRUPLH indexes the different final states and polarizations. Assume, for example, that a process has IDRUPLH=14995 . The stdhep file is ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc2/whizdata/ILC500/w14995_01.stdhep and the information about the generation of this file can be found in the directory ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc2/whizdata/ILC500/doc/run_output/w14995/run_01/ .
The log file is ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc2/whizdata/ILC500/doc/run_output/w14995/run_01/whizard.log ,
the whizard input file is ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc2/whizdata/ILC500/doc/run_output/w14995/run_01/whizard.in
and cross section information is in ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc2/whizdata/ILC500/doc/run_output/w14995/run_01/whizard.n3n3n3n3ss_o.out

The WHIZARD Monte Carlo version 1.40 is used for parton generation. For processes with (without) an on-shell Higgs boson in the final state the Higgs mass is assumed to be 120 GeV (2000 GeV). The Makefile and build log files for this implementation of WHIZARD can be found in ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc2/whizdata/ILC500/doc/whizard-v1r4p0 .

Electron/Positron Beam Properties: Beamstrahlung and LINAC Energy Spread

The following lines in whizard.in control the properties of the colliding electron/positron beams:

USER_spectrum_on = T
USER_spectrum_mode = -2

The first line indicates that a user-supplied function is used to simulate the beams. A copy of this function can
be found in ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc/ILC500/StandardModel/whizard-src/user.f90

The absolute value of USER_spectrum_mode determines which energy spectrum is used, with the sign +/- indicating
electron/positron beam, respectively. For the 500 GeV SM data sample this absolute value is always 2, and corresponds
to the Guinea-Pig data contained in the directory ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc/ILC500/StandardModel/guinea-pig/ilc_0500_may05_run05_seed06/
This spectrum represents the default ILC design for Ecm=500 GeV circa August 2005, and includes both incoming LINAC
energy spread and beamstrahlung.

Final State Parton Showering and Fragmentation

PYTHIA 6.205 is used for final state QED/QCD parton showering and for the fragmentation of quarks and gluons. Parton showering is performed for all final state fermions with the exception of electrons. Final state QED showering of electrons is turned off because the PYTHIA final state showering code indiscriminately uses the invariant mass of final state fermion-antifermion pairs for the maximum virtuality scale. Default parameters are used for parton showering and fragmentation.

The interface to PYTHIA is contained in ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc/ILC500/StandardModel/whizard-src/user.f90 . The source code for referenced subroutines can be found in ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc/ILC500/StandardModel/a6f/include .

Color flow information was not available in WHIZARD 1.40, and so kinematic and parton id information is used to identify color singlet systems (see ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc/ILC500/StandardModel/a6f/include/ilc_fragment_call.f90 and ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc/ILC500/StandardModel/a6f/include/calc_a1sq_a2sq.f90 ).

Kinematic Cuts

Kinematic cuts are applied to massless particle configurations where some cutoff is required to avoid an infinite cross section. In the WHIZARD event generation stage we set the masses of all first and second generation fermions to zero, so that photons, gluons, electrons, muons and u,d,s,c quarks are all subject to kinematic cuts. The cuts are given by the WHIZARD input parameters default_jet_cut, default_mass_cut and default_q_cut . We use the WHIZARD default value
default_jet_cut=10 GeV for the minimum invariant mass of a pair of colored particles. We use default_mass_cut=4 GeV for the minimum invariant mass of a pair of colorless particles, and we use default_q_cut=4 GeV for the minimum sqrt(-Q**2) for
massless t-channel processes.

The massless assumption for the first and second fermion generations can produce some odd results given the kinematic cut values we have chosen. For example, the cross section for gamma gamma -> tau tau is significantly larger than the cross section for gamma gamma -> mu mu since the cut value of 4 GeV for default_mass_cut and default_q_cut is much larger than the tau mass.
Also the cross section for gamma gamma -> qq is suppressed relative to the corresponding cross section for lepton pair
production because the cut value of 10 GeV for default_jet_cut is larger than the cut value of 4 GeV for default_mass_cut .

Derived stdhep files.

There are over 3500 files in ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc2/whizdata/ILC500/, each produced with 100% electron and positron polarization. To use these
stdhep files in practice one must read the correct number of events from a subset of these files, or read a derived stdhep file. A derived stdhep file is built from the files
in ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc2/whizdata/ILC500/ and corresponds to a particular subset of final states with a particular initial state electron and positron polarization
combination (such as -80% electron and +30% positron).

Event Weight

Due to the presence of some high cross section processes, the events in a derived stdhep file are not completely unweighted.
The event weight must therefore always be considered when analyzing events.
This weight is stored in the variable EVENTWEIGHTLH in the stdhep common block HEPEV4.

Process Identification

For each event in a derived stdhep file the variable IDRUPLH from the common block HEPEV4 is used to identify the process. (See the
description of the IDRUPLH variable in the introduction above.)

Derived stdhep files with randomized final states.

Derived stdhep files have been produced where different final states appear randomly:

The lumi values in this table refer to the event weight normalization, and may not correspond in some instances to the ratio of the number of events to the cross section. Each directory contains files inv_ab_stdhep_files_XXX_ecmEEE_80L_30R and inv_ab_stdhep_files_XXX_ecmEEE_80R_30L which describe the stdhep files used to build the derived files (for example ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc/ILC250/Large_Stdhep_SM/inv_ab_stdhep_files_Large_Stdhep_SM_ecm250_80L_30R).
The fields in the ..._inv_ab_stdhep_files are:

Defining your own derived stdhep files.

You can build your own derived stdhep files by filling out an input card file, such as ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc/ILC500/StandardModel/aa_bb_example_whizdata.in or ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc/ILC500/StandardModel/qqlv_example_whizdata.in . Comment lines begin with an exclamation point. The fields are:

If you want your own derived file please fill in your version of a whizdata.in file and email to timb@slac.stanford.edu . At a minimum we will return a text file containing a list of the stdhep files to be read out. If there is sufficient ftp space we will also produce the derived file. Examples of the readout text files for the whizdata.in sample files mentioned above can be found at ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc/ILC500/StandardModel/aa_bb_example_inv_ab_stdhep_files and
ftp://ftp-lcd.slac.stanford.edu/ilc/ILC500/StandardModel/qqlv_example_inv_ab_stdhep_files .

FAQ

Whizard 1.40 has no gluon emission by default, leading to potentially incorrect multiplicity distributions.

The WHIZARD version 1.40 that was used to generate this sample indeed did not include gluon emission. However gluon radiation was simulated using PYTHIA's parton showering algorithm. WHIZARD versions 1.50 and higher include gluon emission, and, starting with version 1.91, WHIZARD has its own parton showering code.

Whizard 1.40 has an incorrect implementation of the CKM matrix. Only diagonal terms of the matrix are present (and = 1!), giving wrong W decays.

Although true for the Whizard version 1.40 that was used to generate this data sample, it is extremely doubtful that this will have any effect on the current analyses. WHIZARD versions 1.51 and higher include the correct CKM matrix, and so future data samples will include the rarer W decays.

This sample has generator level cuts a la SiD, providing a potential bias when used for ILD.

There are, indeed, some kinematical cuts for processes with divergent cross-sections, which can be seen by looking at the whizard.in file as described above. However, the only kinematic cut that leads to a genuine loss of events is a 4 GeV minimum invariant mass cut on final state fermion-antifermion pairs.

Beam-Beam Background Stdhep Files

Beam-beam backgrounds are extremely large cross-section process such as AA --> e1E1, AA--> e2E2, and AA--> hadrons where the AA center-of-mass energy goes all the way down to threshold. The photons can be either beamstrahlung or Weiszacker-Williams. All Beam-Beam background Stdhep files are unweighted.