Final-state QED Multipole Radiation in Antenna Parton Showers
Abstract
We present a formalism for a fully coherent QED parton shower. The complete multipole structure of photonic radiation is incorporated in a single branching kernel. The regular on-shell 2 to 3 kinematic picture is kept intact by dividing the radiative phase space into sectors, allowing for a definition of the ordering variable that is similar to QCD antenna showers. A modified version of the Sudakov veto algorithm is discussed that increases performance at the cost of the introduction of weighted events. Due to the absence of a soft singularity, the formalism for photon splitting is very similar to the QCD analogon of gluon splitting. However, since no color structure is available to guide the selection of a spectator, a weighted selection procedure from all available spectators is introduced.
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@article{arxiv.1709.04485,
title = {Final-state QED Multipole Radiation in Antenna Parton Showers},
author = {Ronald Kleiss and Rob Verheyen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.04485},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
33 pages, 12 figures. Added subsection 4.3 and some comments and references per reviewer request. Version accepted by JHEP