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Dipole Showers and Automated NLO Matching in Herwig++

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-30 v1

Abstract

We report on the implementation of a coherent dipole shower algorithm along with an automated implementation for dipole subtraction and for performing POWHEG- and MC@NLO-type matching to next-to-leading order (NLO) calculations. Both programs are implemented as add-on modules to the event generator Herwig++. A preliminary tune of parameters to data acquired at LEP, HERA and Drell-Yan pair production at the Tevatron has been performed, and we find an overall very good description which is slightly improved by the NLO matching.

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@article{arxiv.1109.6256,
  title  = {Dipole Showers and Automated NLO Matching in Herwig++},
  author = {Simon Platzer and Stefan Gieseke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.6256},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages, 14 figures