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2606.19524 2026-06-19 physics.ed-ph hep-ph 新提交

Vistas: A Visualization Interface for Particle Collision Simulations

Vistas:粒子碰撞模拟的可视化界面

Benoit Assi, Christan Bierlich, Rikab Gambhir, Philip Ilten, Tony Menzo, Stephen Mrenna, Manuel Szewc, Michael K. Wilkinson, Ahmed Youssef, Jure Zupan

AI总结 提出Vistas工具,利用浏览器事件显示框架Phoenix可视化Pythia模拟的高能粒子碰撞各阶段,通过交互式3D图结构展示粒子,支持旋转、缩放和筛选,适用于物理教育。

Comments 20 pages, 9 figures, public code available

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AI中文摘要

我们介绍Vistas,一个用于可视化由Pythia蒙特卡洛事件生成器模拟的高能粒子物理碰撞的工具。Vistas利用基于浏览器的事件显示框架Phoenix,展示高能碰撞事件模拟的不同计算阶段:硬过程、部分子簇射、强子化和粒子衰变。每个阶段产生的粒子被表示为交互式三维图结构中的线条,每条线沿其粒子三维动量矢量的方向。事件可以旋转、平移和缩放,通过选择相关粒子线可以访问每个粒子的详细信息。此外,模拟所有阶段的粒子线可以切换开关,并可以通过粒子级运动学选择要求进行过滤。这种交互式环境提供了对Pythia模拟输出的直观解释,包括颜色流、束流残余和多重部分子相互作用等详细特征,使其成为物理教育环境中的有用工具,从外展活动到研究生粒子物理课程。

英文摘要

We introduce Vistas, a tool for visualizing high-energy particle physics collisions simulated by the Pythia Monte-Carlo event generator. Vistas utilizes the browser-based event display framework Phoenix to show distinct computational stages of a high-energy collision event simulation: the hard process, parton shower, hadronization, and particle decays. Particles produced from each of these stages are represented as lines in an interactive three-dimensional graph structure, where each line is along the direction of its particle's three-momentum vector. The event can be rotated, translated and zoomed, and details for each particle can be accessed by selecting the relevant particle line. Additionally, particle lines from all stages of the simulation can be toggled on and off and can be filtered by particle-level kinematic selection requirements. This interactive environment provides an intuitive interpretation of Pythia simulation output, including detailed features such as color flow, beam remnants, and multiple parton interactions, making it a useful tool in physics education settings, from outreach activities to graduate particle-physics courses.