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A new Monte Carlo event generator for wide angle Bhabha scattering and muon pair production in $e^+e^-$ collisions is described. The program includes complete one-loop electroweak corrections, and QED radiative corrections. The O($\alpha$)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 J. H. Field , T. Riemann

In this paper we present a numerical implementation of the one-loop QED corrections to the hard-bremsstrahlung process e- e+ \to e- e+ gamma. These corrections can be included in the Monte Carlo event generators employed for simulating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-22 Stefano Actis , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Giovanni Ossola

The accurate knowledge of luminosity at e^+ e^- flavour factories requires the precision calculation of the Bhabha cross section at large scattering angles. In order to achieve a theoretical accuracy at the 0.1% level, the relevant effect…

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

A fast and simple Monte Carlo program is presented that simulates single Bremsstrahlung in Bhabha scattering, e+e- --> e+e-gamma, without constraints on scattering angles. This allows the study of this process at arbitrarily small, or even…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Kleiss , H. Burkhardt

We describe a simple algorithm that calculates the distributions of electrons and positrons under multiphoton beamstrahlung at a future linear collider. The evolution equation as given by Chen is solved by a Monte Carlo algorithm. Explicit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Anlauf

The luminosity determination of electron-positron colliders operating in the region of low-lying hadronic resonances (E_cm ~ 1-10 GeV), such as BEPC/BES, DAPHNE, KEKB, PEP-II and VEPP-2M, requires the precision calculation of the Bhabha…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. M. Carloni Calame , C. Lunardini , G. Montagna , O. Nicrosini , F. Piccinini

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

We present the Monte Carlo program BHAGEN95, for calculating the cross-section of the Bhabha scattering process at LEP1/SLC and LEP2 energies, usable with continuity from small to large-angle configurations. We discuss some improvements in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Caffo , H. Czyz , E. Remiddi

The generator QEDPS, a parton shower model in QED, developed by the present authors has been improved. By a careful study on the shower algorithm it was found that some finite contributions have been missed in the original version. They are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 T. Munehisa , J. Fujimoto , Y. Kurihara , Y. Shimizu

In this thesis, we present automated, process-independent methods for the calculation of QED real radiative corrections. We review the construction of a parton shower based on Catani-Seymour dipole subtraction, and thus detail the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-05 Lois Flower

We present a Monte-Carlo approach to prompt-photon production, where photons and QCD partons are treated democratically. The photon fragmentation function is modelled by an interleaved QCD+QED parton shower. This known technique is improved…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Stefan Hoeche , Steffen Schumann , Frank Siegert

A new model of QCD parton shower is proposed which is dedicated to two-photon process in $e^+ e^-$ scattering. When hadron jets are produced, the photon may resolve into quark-antiquark pairs so that the structure functions of the photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 T. Munehisa , P. Aurenche , J. -Ph. Guillet , M. Fontannaz , Y. Shimizu

A parton shower method for the photonic radiative correction is applied to the single W-boson production processes. The energy scale for the evolution of the parton shower is determined so that the correct soft-photon emission is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 Y. Kurihara , J. Fujimoto , T. Ishikawa , Y. Shimizu , K. Kato , K. Tobimatsu , T. Munehisa

This work deals with the computation of electron pair correction to small angle Bhabha scattering, in order to contribute to the improvement of luminometry precision at LEP/SLC below 0.1% theoretical accuracy. The exact QED four-fermion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 G. Montagna , M. Moretti , O. Nicrosini , A. Pallavicini , F. Piccinini

The decade-old technique of combining NLO-corrected hard process with LO-level parton shower Monte Carlo is now mature and used in practice of the QCD calculations in the LHC data analysis. The next step, its extension to an NNLO-corrected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Jadach , A. Kusina , W. Placzek , M. Skrzypek

We present the two-loop virtual QED corrections to e^+ e^- to mu^+ mu^- and Bhabha scattering in dimensional regularization. The results are expressed in terms of polylogarithms. The form of the infrared divergences agrees with previous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , A. Ghinculov

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

Inclusion of the QED higher order radiative corrections in the two-photon process, e+e- -> e+e- mu+mu-, is examined by means of the structure function and the parton shower. Results are compared with the exact $O(\alpha)$ calculations and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Kurihara , J. Fujimoto , Y. Shimizu , K. Kato , K. Tobimatsu , T. Munehisa

I show that with simple extensions of the shower algorithms in Monte Carlo programs, one can implement NLO corrections to the hardest emission that overcome the problems of negative weighted events found in previous implementations. Simple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Paolo Nason

Methodology of including QCD NLO corrections in the quark--gluon Monte Carlo shower is outlined. The work concentrates on two issues: (i) constructing leading order (LO) parton shower Monte Carlo from scratch, such that it rigorously…

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