2.2. FCC: Getting started with simulating events in Delphes

Learning Objectives

This tutorial will teach you how to:

  • generate signal and background samples with Pythia8 with and without EvtGen

  • run a fast parametric detector simulation with Delphes in the EDM4Hep format

  • apply an event selection on those samples with FCCAnalyses

  • produce flat ntuples with observables of interest with FCCAnalyses

  • produce plots with FCCAnalyses

First login to a fresh shell on lxplus, on OSG, or in one of the virtual machines that could be provided on open stack. Usage of bash shell is highly recommended. Create a working directory and go inside

mkdir mytutorial
cd mytutorial

Then, make sure your setup of the FCC software is working correctly. A quick check is that the executable DelphesPythia8_EDM4HEP, which allows you to run jobs in the EDM4Hep format is available on the command line:

which DelphesPythia8_EDM4HEP

If the above command fails without printing a path like /cvmfs/sw.hsf.org/spackages7/k4simdelphes/00-03-01/x86_64-centos7-gcc11.2.0-opt/7he4m/bin/DelphesPythia8_EDM4HEP, you need to setup the FCC software stack

source /cvmfs/fcc.cern.ch/sw/latest/setup.sh

When sourcing the stack, you should see a message like:

 ...  Key4HEP release: key4hep-stack/2023-04-08
 ... Use the following command to reproduce the current environment: 
 ... 
         source /cvmfs/sw.hsf.org/spackages7/key4hep-stack/2023-04-08/x86_64-centos7-gcc11.2.0-opt/urwcv/setup.sh
 ... 
 ... done.

which means that the version 2023-04-08 of key4hep-stack is sourced.

2.2.1. Part I: Generate and simulate Events with DelphesEDM4Hep

For this tutorial we will consider the following physics processes:

  • e+ e- -> ZH -> Z and H to anything

  • e+ e- -> ZZ -> Z to anything

  • e+ e- -> WW -> W to anything

Let’s start by downloading the official pythia cards for the various processes:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HEP-FCC/FCC-config/winter2023/FCCee/Generator/Pythia8/p8_ee_ZH_ecm240.cmd
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HEP-FCC/FCC-config/winter2023/FCCee/Generator/Pythia8/p8_ee_ZZ_ecm240.cmd
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HEP-FCC/FCC-config/winter2023/FCCee/Generator/Pythia8/p8_ee_WW_ecm240.cmd

The detector response of the baseline FCC-ee IDEA detector configuration is estimated with Delphes. Other detector cards can be found in the $DELPHES_DIR/cards directory, such as a ATLAS, CMS or ILD detector configurations: delphes_card_ATLAS.tcl, delphes_card_CMS.tcl and delphes_card_ILD.tcl.

But let’s download the official one:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HEP-FCC/FCC-config/winter2023/FCCee/Delphes/card_IDEA.tcl

To check the arguments ordering, please run the executable:

DelphesPythia8_EDM4HEP -h

it should produce the following message:

Usage: DelphesPythia8config_file output_config_file pythia_card output_file
config_file - configuration file in Tcl format,
output_config_file - configuration file steering the content of the edm4hep output in Tcl format,
pythia_card - Pythia8 configuration file,
output_file - output file in ROOT format.

where the first argument is the delphes card, the second argument the configuration file for the edm4hep output (see later), the third argument is the pythia card and the last argument is the output file name.

Before running we need to define the collections that we want to write. The first name for example GenParticleCollections is the type of output collection in EDM4hep (in this case GenParticleCollections is of type edm4hep::MCParticleCollection) and the second argument for example Particle is the name of the collection in the Delphes card that will be used and stored in the EDM4Hep output file with the same name.

We also download the official version of this file:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HEP-FCC/FCC-config/winter2023/FCCee/Delphes/edm4hep_IDEA.tcl

The following commands will run Pythia8 and Delphes and produce the relevant signal and background samples:

DelphesPythia8_EDM4HEP card_IDEA.tcl edm4hep_IDEA.tcl p8_ee_ZH_ecm240.cmd p8_ee_ZH_ecm240_edm4hep.root
DelphesPythia8_EDM4HEP card_IDEA.tcl edm4hep_IDEA.tcl p8_ee_ZZ_ecm240.cmd p8_ee_ZZ_ecm240_edm4hep.root
DelphesPythia8_EDM4HEP card_IDEA.tcl edm4hep_IDEA.tcl p8_ee_WW_ecm240.cmd p8_ee_WW_ecm240_edm4hep.root