Soft QCD Effects in VBS/VBF Topologies
Abstract
We consider the impact of multi-parton interactions, colour reconnection and hadronization on the modeling of vector boson fusion and vector boson scattering (VBS) final states at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We investigate how the variation of the model parameters, compatible with a reasonable spread of predictions around typical tuning observables, extrapolates into the VBS phase space. We study the implications of this variation on the total uncertainty budget attached to realistic simulation of the final states in current event generator predictions. We find that the variations have a non-trivial phase space dependence and become comparable in size to the perturbative uncertainties once next-to-leading order predictions are combined with parton shower evolution.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2110.01623,
title = {Soft QCD Effects in VBS/VBF Topologies},
author = {Carsten Bittrich and Patrick Kirchgaeßer and Andreas Papaefstathiou and Simon Plätzer and Stefanie Todt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.01623},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
9 pages, 5 figures. Additional figures can be found at: https://cern.ch/apapaefs/VBSQCD/