Slepton pair production in the POWHEG BOX
Abstract
We present an implementation for slepton pair production at hadron colliders in the POWHEG BOX, a framework for combining next-to-leading order QCD calculations with parton-shower Monte-Carlo programs. Our code provides a SUSY Les Houches Accord interface for setting the supersymmetric input parameters. Decays of the sleptons and parton-shower effects are simulated with PYTHIA. Focussing on a representative point in the supersymmetric parameter space we show results for kinematic distributions that can be observed experimentally. While next-to-leading order QCD corrections are sizable for all distributions, the parton shower affects the color-neutral particles only marginally. Pronounced parton-shower effects are found for jet distributions.
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@article{arxiv.1208.2953,
title = {Slepton pair production in the POWHEG BOX},
author = {Barbara Jager and Andreas von Manteuffel and Stephan Thier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.2953},
year = {2015}
}
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10 pages, 4 figures