> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://exo-mc-and-i.gitbook.io/exo-mc-and-interpretation/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://exo-mc-and-i.gitbook.io/exo-mc-and-interpretation/readme.md).

# EXO MC\&Interpretation

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## Welcome to EXO MC\&Interpretation Group!

Welcome to the EXO MC and Interpretations gitbook page!

Our group is in charge of providing a comprehensive and coherent Monte Carlo strategy for the Exotica group, as well as addressing in time additional technical work that may be required for the implementation of new physics signals. We will be "ex-officio" keeping connection with the GEN/PPD/PdmV group to provide full support on issues regarding the MC generator, central sample submissions and productions, etc.

We have regular biweekly meetings on even week Tuesdays 16:00 - 18:00.

## Contact Us!

**Conveners** :\
Jaime Leon Holgado (IC, Sep. 2024 - present), <Jaime.Leon.Holgado@cern.ch>\
Gianfranco de Castro (BU, Sep. 2025 - present) <gdecastr@bu.edu>

*egroup address*: <cms-exo-mci@cern.ch>

**MC contacts** :

Benjamin Rand, Shriniketan Acharya, Sanjit Masanam, Tianyu Mu, Dawei Fu, Danyi Zhang.\
*egroup address* : <cms-exo-mcrequests@cern.ch>

Contact us through email if you have any questions regarding MC generators, sample requests/productions, and (re-)interpretations.

**HepData Contact** :

Antonis Agapitos <ph2632@gmail.com>

*Egroup address* (including the MC\&I conveners): <cms-phys-exo-hepdata@cern.ch>.

**Past conveners** :\
Tamas Almos Vami (UCSB, 2023 - 2025), <Tamas.Almos.Vami@cern.ch>\
Sitian Qian (Peking University, 2022 - 2024), <Sitian.Qian@cern.ch>\
Michael Krohn (University of Minnesota, 2021 - 2023)\
Sihyun Jeon (Seoul National University , 2020 - 2022)\
David Yu\
Jose Ruiz\
Marco Trovato\
Andreas Albert\
Bjorn Penning\
Steven Lowette\
Stephen Mrenna

## Useful Links

### How to generate gridpacks

* [MadGraph twiki](https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMS/QuickGuideMadGraph5aMCatNLO)
* [genproductions github](https://github.com/cms-sw/genproductions)
* [Naming conventions](https://cms-pdmv.gitbook.io/project/mccontact/rules-for-run3-2024-dataset-names)

### Where to request EXO MC samples

* [EXO MC sample requests gitlab](https://gitlab.cern.ch/cms-exo-mci/EXO-MCsampleRequests)
* [EXO MC instructions twiki](https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Main/ExoMCInstructions) (old, will move things to here)
* [EXO MC instructions twiki](https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/CMS/EXOTICAMC) (ancient)