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A model of non-perturbative gluon emission in an initial state parton shower

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-02-18 v3

Abstract

We consider a model of transverse momentum production in which non-perturbative smearing takes place throughout the perturbative evolution, by a simple modification to an initial state parton shower algorithm. Using this as the important non-perturbative ingredient, we get a good fit to data over a wide range of energy. Combining it with the non-perturbative masses and cutoffs that are a feature of conventional parton showers also leads to a reasonable fit. We discuss the extrapolation to the LHC.

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@article{arxiv.0712.1199,
  title  = {A model of non-perturbative gluon emission in an initial state parton shower},
  author = {Stefan Gieseke and Michael H. Seymour and Andrzej Siodmok},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.1199},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, 6 figures; version accepted by JHEP