Comparative study of various algorithms for the merging of parton showers and matrix elements in hadronic collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0706.2569,
title = {Comparative study of various algorithms for the merging of parton showers and matrix elements in hadronic collisions},
author = {J. Alwall and S. Hoeche and F. Krauss and N. Lavesson and L. Lonnblad and F. Maltoni and M. L. Mangano and M. Moretti and C. G. Papadopoulos and F. Piccinini and S. Schumann and M. Treccani and J. Winter and M. Worek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.2569},
year = {2008}
}