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We present for the first time the full automation of collider predictions matched with parton showers at the next-to-leading accuracy in QCD within non-trivial extensions of the Standard Model. The sole inputs required from the user are the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 Céline Degrande , Benjamin Fuks , Valentin Hirschi , Josselin Proudom , Hua-Sheng Shao

High-quality simulated data is crucial for particle physics discoveries. Therefore, parton shower algorithms are a major building block of the data synthesis in event generator programs. However, the core algorithms used to generate parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-09 Gösta Gustafson , Stefan Prestel , Michael Spannowsky , Simon Williams

We consider the MiNNLO$_{\rm PS}$ method to consistently combine next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD calculations with parton-shower simulations. We identify the main sources of differences between MiNNLO$_{\rm PS}$ and fixed-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Pier Francesco Monni , Emanuele Re , Marius Wiesemann

The concept of new methodology of adding QCD NLO corrections in the initial state Monte Carlo parton shower (hard process part) is tested numerically using, as an example, the process of the heavy boson production at hadron--hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-03 S. Jadach , M. Jezabek , A. Kusina , W. Placzek , M. Skrzypek

Machine learning methods incorporating deep neural networks have been the subject of recent proposals for new hadronic resonance taggers. These methods require training on a dataset produced by an event generator where the true class labels…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-25 James Barnard , Edmund Noel Dawe , Matthew J. Dolan , Nina Rajcic

We report on a high-precision calculation of the Bhabha process in QED, of interest for precise luminosity determination of low-energy electron-positron colliders. The calculation is based on the matching of exact next-to-leading order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Balossini , C. M. Carloni Calame , G. Montagna , O. Nicrosini , F. Piccinini

We develop a novel Monte Carlo parton branching algorithm based on the Gribov-Levin-Ryskin (GLR) equation. The formulations of both forward evolution and backward evolution for the GLR equation are presented. The results from the Monte…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-08 Yu Shi , Shu-Yi Wei , Jian Zhou

This lecture discusses the physics implemented by Monte Carlo event generators for hadron colliders. It details the construction of parton showers and the matching of parton showers to fixed-order calculations at higher orders in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Stefan Höche

Comparisons of experimental data with theoretical predictions for collider processes containing hadronic jets rely on shower Monte Carlo event generators to include corrections to perturbative calculations from hadronization, parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-15 S. Dooling , P. Gunnellini , F. Hautmann , H. Jung

We present an algorithm for deriving partonic flavour labels to be applied to truth particle jets in Monte Carlo event simulations. The inputs to this approach are final pre-hadronization partons, to remove dependence on unphysical details…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Andy Buckley , Chris Pollard

We present a fully automated framework based on the FeynRules and MadGraph5 aMC@NLO programs that allows for accurate simulations of supersymmetric QCD processes at the LHC. Starting directly from a model Lagrangian that features squark and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-23 Celine Degrande , Benjamin Fuks , Valentin Hirschi , Josselin Proudom , Hua-Sheng Shao

The new methodology of adding QCD NLO corrections in the initial state Monte Carlo parton shower (hard process part) is presented using process of the heavy boson production at the LHC as an example. Despite the simplified model of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-31 S. Jadach , A. Kusina , M. Skrzypek , M. Slawinska

Extending previous work on the predictions for the production of supersymmetric (SUSY) particles at the LHC, we present the fully differential calculation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) SUSY-QCD corrections to the production of squark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Ryan Gavin , Christian Hangst , Michael Krämer , Margarete Mühlleitner , Mathieu Pellen , Eva Popenda , Michael Spira

An improved QED Parton Shower algorithm to calculate photonic radiative corrections to QED processes at flavour factories is described. We consider the possibility of performing photon generation in order to take into account also the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Carlo Michel Carloni Calame

We have previously described a mathematical formulation for a parton shower based on the approximation of strongly ordered virtualities of successive parton splittings. Quantum interference, including interference among different color and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-30 Zoltan Nagy , Davison E. Soper

The choice of a factorization scheme suitable for Monte Carlo simulations of NLO initial state parton showers is discussed in this contribution.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-13 Karel Kolar

In that paper we discuss possibilities of using the Artificial Neural Network technic for the individual Extensive Air Showers data evaluation. It is shown that the recently developed new computational methods can be used in studies of EAS…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Tadeusz Wibig

We present novel predictions for the production of $W^+W^-$ pairs in hadron collisions that are next-to-next-to-leading order accurate and consistently matched to a parton shower (NNLOPS). All diagrams that lead to the process $pp\to e^-…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 Emanuele Re , Marius Wiesemann , Giulia Zanderighi

The pair production of squarks is one of the main search channels for supersymmetry at the LHC. We present a fully differential calculation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) SUSY-QCD corrections to the on-shell production of a pair of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-17 Ryan Gavin , Christian Hangst , Michael Krämer , Margarete Mühlleitner , Mathieu Pellen , Eva Popenda , Michael Spira

I present a new and reliable method to test the numerical accuracy of NLO calculations based on modern OPP/Generalized Unitarity techniques. A convenient solution to rescue most of the detected numerically inaccurate points is also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-14 R. Pittau