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Parton-Level Cross Section Interpolation

Interpolate the relationship between a (parametrised) underlying distribution of particles and the probability of such an event occurring in a collider.

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Parton-Level Cross Section Interpolation

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Downloading the template

To download the template for this use case, you can run the following command in the terminal
aqora template cern-2025-challenge-1
This will download the template into a folder called cern-2025-challenge-1.
You can then open the folder in Visual Studio Code by running the following command in the terminal
aqora lab -p cern-2025-challenge-1
This should open the folder in Visual Studio Code. If you receive a prompt, you can click on "Yes, I trust the authors".

Getting Started

You can find a template notebook in submission/solution.ipynb. Fill in your solution. You can run the notebook locally to test your solution by running the following in the terminal
aqora test
And when you are ready to submit run
aqora upload