Introduction to parton-shower event generators
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-06-19 v2
Abstract
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 perturbative QCD. It also discusses approaches to merge calculations for a varying number of jets, the interface to the underlying event and hadronization.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1411.4085,
title = {Introduction to parton-shower event generators},
author = {Stefan Höche},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.4085},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
40 pages, 12 figures. Lectures presented at TASI 2014