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Initial State Radiation in the Herwig 7 Angular-Ordered Parton Shower

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-01-26 v2

Abstract

We study the simulation of initial-state radiation in angular-ordered parton showers in order to investigate how different interpretations of the ordering variable affect the logarithmic accuracy of such showers. This also enables us to implement a recoil scheme which is consistent between final-state and initial-state radiation. We present optimal values of the strong coupling and intrinsic transverse momentum to be used in each version of the parton shower, tuned using Z0Z^0-boson production at the LHC at 7 TeV. With these tuned showers, we perform a phenomenological study of the Drell-Yan process at several centre-of-mass energies.

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@article{arxiv.2107.04051,
  title  = {Initial State Radiation in the Herwig 7 Angular-Ordered Parton Shower},
  author = {Gavin Bewick and Silvia Ferrario Ravasio and Peter Richardson and Michael H. Seymour},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.04051},
  year   = {2022}
}

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26 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables

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