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We present an implementation of electroweak Z-boson production in association with two jets at hadron colliders in the POWHEG framework, a method that allows the interfacing of NLO-QCD calculations with parton-shower Monte Carlo programs.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Barbara Jager , Steven Schneider , Giulia Zanderighi

We present an implementation of Higgs boson production via vector-boson fusion in association with three jets at hadron colliders in the POWHEG-BOX, a framework for the matching of NLO-QCD calculations with parton-shower programs. Our work…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 B. Jager , F. Schissler , D. Zeppenfeld

In this publication, an algorithm is presented that combines the ME+PS approach to merge sequences of tree-level matrix elements into inclusive event samples with the POWHEG method, which combines exact next-to-leading order matrix element…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-31 Stefan Hoeche , Frank Krauss , Marek Schonherr , Frank Siegert

We present a calculation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the hadroproduction process $gg\to ZZ \to e^+e^- \mu^+ \mu^-$, matched to the parton shower in the POWHEG framework. We take advantage of the POWHEG BOX tool for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Simone Alioli , Fabrizio Caola , Gionata Luisoni , Raul Röntsch

We present a next-to-leading order calculation of Higgs boson production in vector-boson fusion processes interfaced to shower Monte Carlo programs, implemented according to the POWHEG method.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 Paolo Nason , Carlo Oleari

In this work we illustrate the POWHEG BOX, a general computer code framework for implementing NLO calculations in shower Monte Carlo programs according to the POWHEG method. Aim of this work is to provide an illustration of the needed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Simone Alioli , Paolo Nason , Carlo Oleari , Emanuele Re

We present a next-to-leading order calculation of Higgs boson production plus one and two jets via gluon fusion interfaced to shower Monte Carlo programs, implemented according to the POWHEG method. For this implementation we have used a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 John M. Campbell , R. Keith Ellis , Rikkert Frederix , Paolo Nason , Carlo Oleari , Ciaran Williams

We present a next-to-leading order plus parton-shower event generator for the production of a W boson plus two bottom quarks and a jet at hadron colliders, implemented in the POWHEG BOX framework. Bottom-mass effects and spin correlations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Gionata Luisoni , Carlo Oleari , Francesco Tramontano

We present the implementation of electroweak Zjj and Wjj production via vector boson fusion with fully leptonic decays at NLO QCD in the POWHEG framework. These processes represent an important background to Higgs searches in vector boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-12 Franziska Schissler , Dieter Zeppenfeld

We describe how a simulation of Higgs boson production accurate at next-to-next-to-leading order and matched to a parton shower can be built by combining the POWHEG and MiNLO methods and using HNNLO results as input.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Emanuele Re

We present a next-to-leading-order calculation of W/Z production interfaced to shower Monte Carlo, implemented according to the POWHEG method. Finite width effects, Z/gamma interference and angular correlations of decay products are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Simone Alioli , Paolo Nason , Carlo Oleari , Emanuele Re

We present a next-to-leading order calculation of single-top production interfaced to Shower Monte Carlo programs, implemented according to the POWHEG method. A detailed comparison with MC@NLO and PYTHIA is carried out for several…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-03 Simone Alioli , Paolo Nason , Carlo Oleari , Emanuele Re

Measurements of $t\bar{t} H$ production in the $H\to b\bar{b}$ channel depend in a critical way on the theoretical uncertainty associated with the irreducible QCD $t\bar{t}+b$-jet background. We introduce a new $pp\to t\bar{t}b\bar{b}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 Tomáš Ježo

We consider the POWHEG generator for a H/W/Z boson plus one jet, augmented with the recently proposed MiNLO method for the choice of scales and the inclusion of Sudakov form factors. Within this framework, the generator covers all the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Keith Hamilton , Paolo Nason , Carlo Oleari , Giulia Zanderighi

We present the first NLO QCD+EW predictions for Higgs boson production in association with a l nu or l+ l- pair plus zero or one jets at the LHC. Fixed-order NLO QCD+EW calculations are combined with a QCD+QED parton shower using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-20 Federico Granata , Jonas M. Lindert , Carlo Oleari , Stefano Pozzorini

We present an implementation of the next-to-leading order dijet production process in hadronic collisions in the framework of POWHEG, which is a method to implement NLO calculations within a shower Monte Carlo context. In constructing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Simone Alioli , Keith Hamilton , Paolo Nason , Carlo Oleari , Emanuele Re

In this work we present the implementation of generators for W and Z bosons in association with two jets interfaced to parton showers using the POWHEG BOX. We incorporate matrix elements from the parton-level Monte Carlo program MCFM in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 John M. Campbell , R. Keith Ellis , Paolo Nason , Giulia Zanderighi

We present results for Higgs boson pair production with variations of the trilinear Higgs boson self-coupling at next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD including the full top quark mass dependence. Differential results at 14 TeV are presented,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-25 G. Heinrich , S. P. Jones , M. Kerner , G. Luisoni , L. Scyboz

The PowHel framework allows to make predictions of total and differential cross-sections of multiparticle hadroproduction processes at both NLO QCD accuracy and NLO QCD matched to Parton Shower, on the basis of the interface between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-13 M. V. Garzelli , A. Kardos , C. G. Papadopoulos , Z. Trocsanyi

Photoproduction processes have gained a renewed interest following the approval of the EIC, making their implementation in Monte Carlo event generators highly desirable. We present recent efforts to develop a POWHEG BOX extension simulating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-24 Alexander Feike , Tomáš Ježo , Michael Klasen