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IR-Improved DGLAP-CS QCD Parton Showers in Pythia8

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-03-23 v1

Abstract

We introduce the recently developed IR-improved DGLAP-CS theory into the showers in Pythia8, as this Monte Carlo event generator is in wide use at LHC. We show that, just as it was true in the IR-improved shower Monte Carlo Herwiri, which realizes the IR-improved DGLAP-CS theory in the Herwig6.5 environment, the soft limit in processes such as single heavy gauge boson production is now more physical in the IR-improved DGLAP-CS theory version of Pythia8. This opens the way to one's getting a comparison between the actual detector simulations for some of the LHC experiments between IR-improved and unimproved showers as Pythia8 is used in detector simulations at LHC whereas Herwig6.5, the environment of the only other IR-improved DGLAP-CS QCD MC in the literature, Herwiri1.031, is not any longer so used. Our achieving the availability of the IR-improved DGLAP-CS Pythia8 then is an important step in the further development of the LHC precision theory program under development by the author and his collaborators.

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@article{arxiv.1504.00892,
  title  = {IR-Improved DGLAP-CS QCD Parton Showers in Pythia8},
  author = {B. F. L. Ward},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.00892},
  year   = {2016}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure

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