Towards Diffraction in Herwig
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-02-16 v1
Abstract
We propose changes to the colour reconnection model in the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig in order to remove the quasi diffractive events from the soft multiple parton interactions. We then implement explicitly soft diffraction and show some preliminary results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1602.04690,
title = {Towards Diffraction in Herwig},
author = {Stefan Gieseke and Frasher Loshaj and Miroslav Myska},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.04690},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Talk presented by FL at the 7th International Workshop on Multiple Partonic Interactions at the LHC (2015)