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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

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 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 review recent theoretical improvements of Monte Carlo event generators for top-quark pair production and decay at the LHC based on the POWHEG method. We present an event generator that implements spin correlations and off-shell effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-22 Tomáš Ježo

We present a simulation program for the production of a pair of W bosons in association with a jet, that can be used in conjunction with general-purpose shower Monte Carlo generators, according to the POWHEG method. We have further adapted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 Keith Hamilton , Tom Melia , Pier Francesco Monni , Emanuele Re , Giulia Zanderighi

In this short review we discuss two implementations of the charged Higgs boson production process in association with a top quark in Monte Carlo event generators at next-to-leading order in QCD. We introduce the MC@NLO and the POWHEG method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-19 K. Kovarik

We present an implementation of $WZjj$ production via vector-boson fusion in the POWHEG BOX, a public tool for the matching of next-to-leading order QCD calculations with multi-purpose parton-shower generators. We provide phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-12 Barbara Jager , Alexander Karlberg , Johannes Scheller

We present a calculation of prompt photon and associated photon-jet production at next-to-leading order that is consistently matched to parton showers with POWHEG. Specific issues that appear in photon radiation are discussed. Numerical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-11 M. Klasen

We present a new event generator for the simulation of both neutral- and charged-current deep inelastic scattering (DIS) at next-to-leading order in QCD matched to parton showers using the POWHEG method. Our implementation builds on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-09 Andrea Banfi , Silvia Ferrario Ravasio , Barbara Jäger , Alexander Karlberg , Felix Reichenbach , Giulia Zanderighi

Recent progress in calculating lepton density functions inside the proton and simulating lepton showers laid the foundations for precision studies of resonant leptoquark production at hadron colliders. Direct quark-lepton fusion into a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-14 Luca Buonocore , Admir Greljo , Peter Krack , Paolo Nason , Nudzeim Selimovic , Francesco Tramontano , Giulia Zanderighi

A model for the production of large rapidity gaps being implemented in the Monte Carlo event generator PHOJET is discussed. In this model, high-mass diffraction dissociation exhibits properties similar to hadron production in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. W. Bopp , R. Engel , J. Ranft

We present a next-to-leading order calculation of Higgs boson production via gluon fusion interfaced to shower Monte Carlo programs, implemented according to the POWHEG method. A detailed comparison with MC@NLO and PYTHIA is carried out for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 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 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

I review recent developments in POWHEG, a method for interfacing parton-shower generators with NLO QCD computations. I illustrate recent progress in understanding several features of the method, and in clarifying similarity and differences…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-18 P. Nason

We present a next-to-leading order QCD calculation for the electroweak production of a pair of same-sign weak gauge bosons in association with three jets in the region dominated by vector boson scattering, and its matching with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-29 Barbara Jäger , Santiago Lopez Portillo Chavez

We present an implementation of the next-to-leading order hadronic production of a W boson in association with a pair of massive bottom quarks in the framework of POWHEG, a method to consistently interface NLO QCD calculations with shower…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Carlo Oleari , Laura Reina

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

LHC searches for missing transverse energy in association with a jet allow to place strong bounds on the interactions between dark matter and quarks. In this article, we present an extension of the POWHEG BOX capable of calculating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Ulrich Haisch , Felix Kahlhoefer , Emanuele Re

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