Comparative study of various algorithms for the merging of parton showers and matrix elements in hadronic collisions Export

@misc{citeulike:1401158, abstract = {We compare different procedures for combining fixed-order tree-level matrix-element generators with parton showers. We use the case of W-production at the Tevatron and the LHC to compare different implementations of the so-called CKKW and MLM schemes using different matrix-element generators and different parton cascades. We find that although similar results are obtained in all cases, there are important differences.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Alwall, J. and Hoeche, S. and Krauss, F. and Lavesson, N. and Lonnblad, L. and Maltoni, F. and Mangano, M. L. and Moretti, M. and Papadopoulos, C. G. and Piccinini, F. and Schumann, S. and Treccani, M. and Winter, J. and Worek, M.}, citeulike-article-id = {1401158}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.2569}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0706.2569}, day = {18}, eprint = {0706.2569}, keywords = {generator, hep, montecarlo, physics, pythia, qcd}, month = {Jun}, posted-at = {2007-06-20 15:52:00}, priority = {4}, title = {Comparative study of various algorithms for the merging of parton showers and matrix elements in hadronic collisions}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.2569}, year = {2007} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1401158 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1401158 N2 - We compare different procedures for combining fixed-order tree-level matrix-element generators with parton showers. We use the case of W-production at the Tevatron and the LHC to compare different implementations of the so-called CKKW and MLM schemes using different matrix-element generators and different parton cascades. We find that although similar results are obtained in all cases, there are important differences. TI - Comparative study of various algorithms for the merging of parton showers and matrix elements in hadronic collisions KW - generator KW - hep KW - montecarlo KW - physics KW - pythia KW - qcd AU - Alwall, J AU - Hoeche, S AU - Krauss, F AU - Lavesson, N AU - Lonnblad, L AU - Maltoni, F AU - Mangano, ML AU - Moretti, M AU - Papadopoulos, CG AU - Piccinini, F AU - Schumann, S AU - Treccani, M AU - Winter, J AU - Worek, M PY - 2007/Jun/18/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.2569 ER -