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Every result in modern particle physics, from the Higgs discovery, searches for dark matter, and investigations of the quark–gluon plasma, depends on simulated collisions. As the world’s most widely used Monte Carlo event generator for particle physics, PYTHIA, developed and maintained in Lund, has been a quiet but globally indispensable Swedish contribution to high-energy physics for decades.
This talk will introduce what PYTHIA is and how it supports collider experiments. I will then discuss how PYTHIA is evolving for the next decade: adapting to upcoming, integrating with machine-learning workflows, and exploring differentiable and AI-assisted modelling. These developments are not just research curiosities but essential steps in maintaining a modern, sustainable simulation infrastructure for experiments with large Swedish involvement.
The talk will conclude with a look at how PYTHIA connects Swedish research to the global particle-physics ecosystem – and how the Swedish community can help shape its next chapter.
