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We present a Monte Carlo generator that implements significant theoretical improvements in the simulation of top-quark pair production and decay at the LHC. Spin correlations and off-shell effects in top-decay chains are described in terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Tomáš Ježo , Jonas M. Lindert , Paolo Nason , Carlo Oleari , Stefano Pozzorini

The majority of Monte-Carlo (MC) simulation campaigns for future $e^+e^-$ colliders has so far been based on the leading-order (LO) matrix elements provided by Whizard 1.95, followed by parton shower and hadronization in Pythia6, using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-01 Zhijie Zhao , Mikael Berggren , Jenny List

In this contribution we present results from the NLO computation of the production of a $W$ boson in association with three jets in hadronic collisions. The results are obtained by combining two programs: {\tt BlackHat} for the virtual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 C. F. Berger , Z. Bern , L. J. Dixon , F. Febres Cordero , D. Forde , T. Gleisberg , H. Ita , D. A. Kosower , D. Maitre

A new release of the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig (version 7.3) has been launched. This iteration encompasses several enhancements over its predecessor, version 7.2. Noteworthy upgrades include: the implementation of a…

Precision studies of the production of a high-transverse momentum lepton in association with missing energy at hadron colliders require that electroweak and QCD higher-order contributions are simultaneously taken into account in theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-22 G. Balossini , C. M. Carloni Calame , G. Montagna , M. Moretti , O. Nicrosini , F. Piccinini , M. Treccani , A. Vicini

The hadroproduction of a $W$ boson in association with a charm quark at the Large Hadron Collider is at the centre of current investigations due to its potential to probe the strangeness content of the proton. In this paper we present an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-27 G. Bevilacqua , M. V. Garzelli , A. Kardos , L. Toth

We present an improvement of the MC event generator Herwiri2, where we recall the latter MC was a prototype for the inclusion of CEEX resummed EW corrections in hadron-hadron scattering at high cms energies. In this improvement the new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 S. Jadach , B. F. L. Ward , Z. A. Was , S. A. Yost

The detailed study of vector-boson pair production processes at the LHC will lead to a better understanding of electroweak physics. As pointed out before, a consistent inclusion of higher-order electroweak effects in the analysis of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-17 Stefan Gieseke , Tobias Kasprzik , Johann H. Kühn

We review the key features of POWHEG, a method for interfacing parton-shower Monte Carlo generators to fixed next-to-leading order QCD computations. We describe a recently introduced framework, the POWHEG-BOX, that allows the automatic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 Carlo Oleari

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 an FPGA-based study of matrix-element acceleration for Monte Carlo event generation, using MadGraph5_aMC@NLO as a benchmark framework. Two complementary scenarios are considered. First, we implement the full matrix-element…

We present a complete calculation of the electroweak O(alpha^3 alpha_s) corrections to three-jet production and related event-shape observables at electron--positron colliders. The Z-boson resonance is described within the complex-mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier , Thomas Gehrmann , Christian Kurz

The AcerMC Monte Carlo generator is dedicated to the generation of Standard Model background processes which were recognised as critical for the searches at LHC, and generation of which was either unavailable or not straightforward so far.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-15 Borut Paul Kersevan , Elzbieta Richter-Was

The version 1.51 of the Monte Carlo (MC) program KoralW for all $e^+e^-\to f_1\bar f_2 f_3\bar f_4$ processes is presented. The most important change since the previous version 1.42 is the facility for writing MC events on the mass storage…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Jadach , W. Placzek , M. Skrzypek , B. F. L. Ward , Z. Was

We compare the three general-purpose Monte Carlo event generators, HERWIG, PYTHIA, and SHEPRA for jet photoproduction processes in $e^+e^-$ and $ep$ collisions. Due to the lower energy scales probed, photoproduction is particularly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 Ilkka Helenius , Peter Meinzinger , Simon Plätzer , Peter Richardson

Ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions (UPCs) provide a distinct environment for high-energy QCD research, focusing on the production of vector mesons. This proceeding details recent advancements in the Sar$t$re Monte Carlo event generator,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Vaidehi Nattoja , Tobias Toll

The initial-state jet matching method introduced in our previous studies has been applied to the event generation of single $W$ and $Z$ production processes and diboson ($W^{+}W^{-}$, $WZ$ and $ZZ$) production processes at hadron collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Shigeru Odaka , Yoshimasa Kurihara

$W^+W^-\gamma$ production in proton-proton collision provides a window to the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking and a direct accessment to triple and quartic gauge couplings. Precision study of gauge boson self-interactions may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-22 Jian-Wen Zhu , Ren-You Zhang , Wen-Gan Ma , Qiang Yang , Yi Jiang

In these proceedings, we report recent progress of theoretical predictions for loop-induced Higgs boson production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Our contributions include the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD and electroweak corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-15 Hantian Zhang

This publication presents the combination of the one-loop matrix-element generator Recola with the multipurpose Monte Carlo program Sherpa. Since both programs are highly automated, the resulting Sherpa+Recola framework allows for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-10 Benedikt Biedermann , Stephan Bräuer , Ansgar Denner , Mathieu Pellen , Steffen Schumann , Jennifer M. Thompson