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The aim of this work is to describe in detail the POWHEG method, first suggested by one of the authors, for interfacing parton-shower generators with NLO QCD computations. We describe the method in its full generality, and then specify its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefano Frixione , Paolo Nason , Carlo Oleari

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Barbara Jager , Andreas von Manteuffel , Stephan Thier

We present a calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to slepton pair production in association with a jet at the LHC together with their implementation in the POWHEG BOX. For the simulation of parton-shower effects and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Barbara Jager , Andreas von Manteuffel , Stephan Thier

We present a new Monte Carlo event generator for the hadronic production of four top quarks in the POWHEG BOX framework. Besides the dominant next-to-leading order QCD corrections at $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^5)$ we also include all subleading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-06 Tomáš Ježo , Manfred Kraus

We consider the production of a pair of heavy quarks and illustrate the derivation of the MiNNLO method to match next-to-next-to-leading order calculations with parton showers (NNLO+PS) for this class of processes. As a first application,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-04 Javier Mazzitelli , Pier Francesco Monni , Paolo Nason , Emanuele Re , Marius Wiesemann , Giulia Zanderighi

The associated production of charged Higgs bosons and top quarks at hadron colliders is an important discovery channel to establish the existence of a non-minimal Higgs sector. Here, we present details of a next-to-leading order (NLO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-19 M. Klasen , K. Kovarik , P. Nason , C. Weydert

The positive weight next-to-leading-order matching formalism (POWHEG) is applied to Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) and the related Higgs boson production via vector-boson fusion process in the Herwig++ Monte Carlo event generator. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Luca D'Errico , Peter Richardson

One of the most important developments in Monte Carlo simulation of collider events for the LHC has been the arrival of schemes and codes for matching of parton showers to matrix elements calculated at next-to-leading order in the QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-21 Andy Buckley , Debottam Bakshi Gupta

Next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD predictions for the production of heavy quarks in proton-proton collisions are presented within three different approaches to quark mass, resummation and fragmentation effects. In particular, new NLO and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Klasen , C. Klein-Bösing , K. Kovarik , G. Kramer , M. Topp , J. Wessels

We introduce a twiki page with collections of generated Monte Carlo event samples in proton-proton collisions at LHC energies including a heavy quark-antiquark pair in the final state. These samples are generated with the POWHEG method and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-08 M. V. Garzelli , Adam Kardos , Zoltán Trócsányi

We present a new Monte Carlo event generator for the production of a top-quark pair in association with a $W^\pm$ boson at hadron colliders in the POWHEG-BOX framework. We consider the next-to-leading-order QCD corrections to the $pp\to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 F. Febres Cordero , M. Kraus , L. Reina

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 accurate simulation of t-channel single-top plus jet production matched to parton showers via the POWHEG method. The calculation underlying the simulation is enhanced with a process-specific implementation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-17 Stefano Carrazza , Rikkert Frederix , Keith Hamilton , Giulia Zanderighi

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 detail a calculation of W gamma production in hadronic collision, at Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) QCD interfaced to a shower generator according to the POWHEG prescription supplemented with the MiNLO procedure. The fixed order result is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Luca Barze , Mauro Chiesa , Guido Montagna , Paolo Nason , Oreste Nicrosini , Fulvio Piccinini , Valeria Prosperi

We present an implementation of the vector boson pair production processes ZZ, W+W- and W Z within the POWHEG framework, which is a method that allows the interfacing of NLO calculations to shower Monte Carlo programs. The implementation is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Tom Melia , Paolo Nason , Raoul Röntsch , Giulia Zanderighi

We describe the \POWHEGBOX{} package, a general computer code framework for implementing NLO calculations in Shower Monte Carlo programs according to the \POWHEG{} method.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-09-14 Simone Alioli

We present an implementation of the production of three jets at NLO plus parton-shower effects in the POWHEG BOX. Using the recently introduced MiNLO procedure for setting the renormalization and factorization scales, we are able to obtain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Adam Kardos , Paolo Nason , Carlo Oleari

In this article we describe simulations of Higgs boson production via the gluon fusion and Higgs-strahlung processes, using the positive weight next-to-leading-order (NLO) matching scheme, POWHEG, in the Herwig++ 2.3 event generator. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-20 Keith Hamilton , Peter Richardson , Jon Tully

The next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections to Drell-Yan slepton pair production are merged with parton shower evolution via the POWHEG method in Herwig++. The NLO corrections at the level of event generation alter the shape of observables…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-02 Ilan Fridman-Rojas , Peter Richardson