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Matching Parton Showers and Matrix Elements

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

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 scheme and one based on the so-called MLM scheme using different matrix element generators and different parton cascades. We find that although similar results are obtained in all cases, there are important differences.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0602031,
  title  = {Matching Parton Showers and Matrix Elements},
  author = {Stefan Hoeche and Frank Krauss and Nils Lavesson and Leif Lonnblad and Michelangelo Mangano and Andreas Schaelicke and Steffen Schumann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0602031},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Proceedings of the "HERA and the LHC" workshop, CERN/DESY 2004/2005