Propagation of Uncertainty in a Parton Shower
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Presented here is a technique of propagating uncertainties through the parton shower by means of an alternate event weight. This technique provides a mechanism to systematically quantify the effect of variations of certain components of the parton shower leading to a novel approach to probing the physics implemented in a parton shower code and understanding its limitations. Further, this approach can be applied to a large class of parton shower algorithms and requires no changes to the underlying implementation.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0703240,
title = {Propagation of Uncertainty in a Parton Shower},
author = {Philip Stephens and Andre van Hameren},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0703240},
year = {2007}
}
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19 pages