Merging weak and QCD showers with matrix elements
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-02-17 v1
Abstract
We present a consistent way of combining associated weak boson radiation in hard dijet events with hard QCD radiation in Drell-Yan-like scatterings. This integrates multiple tree-level calculations with vastly different cross sections, QCD- and electroweak parton shower resummation into a single framework. The new merging strategy is implemented in the PYTHIA event generator and predictions are confronted with LHC data. Improvements over the previous strategy are observed. Results of the new electroweak-improved merging at a future 100 TeV proton collider are also investigated.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1510.01517,
title = {Merging weak and QCD showers with matrix elements},
author = {Jesper Roy Christiansen and Stefan Prestel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.01517},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
18 pages, 9 figures