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Vegas Revisited: Adaptive Monte Carlo Integration Beyond Factorization

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arxiv hep-ph/9806432 v1 pith:5IQPOLXJ submitted 1998-06-22 hep-ph physics.comp-ph

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We present a new adaptive Monte Carlo integration algorithm for ill-behaved integrands with non-factorizable singularities. The algorithm combines Vegas with multi channel sampling and performs significantly better than Vegas for a large class of integrals appearing in physics.

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