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Combining states without scale hierarchies with ordered parton showers

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-10-11 v2

Abstract

We present a parameter-free scheme to combine fixed-order multi-jet results with parton-shower evolution. The scheme produces jet cross sections with leading-order accuracy in the complete phase space of multiple emissions, resumming large logarithms when appropriate, while not arbitrarily enforcing ordering on momentum configurations beyond the reach of the parton-shower evolution equation. This requires the development of a matrix-element correction scheme for complex phase-spaces including ordering conditions as well as a systematic scale-setting procedure for unordered phase-space points. The resulting algorithm does not require a merging-scale parameter. We implement the new method in the Vincia framework and compare to LHC data.

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@article{arxiv.1706.06218,
  title  = {Combining states without scale hierarchies with ordered parton showers},
  author = {Nadine Fischer and Stefan Prestel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.06218},
  year   = {2017}
}

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updated to version published in EPJC

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