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Matching NLO QCD computations with PYTHIA using MC@NLO

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-20 v2
Authors: Paolo Torrielli , Stefano Frixione
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Abstract

We present the matching between a next-to-leading order computation in QCD and the PYTHIA parton shower Monte Carlo, according to the MC@NLO formalism. We study the case of initial-state radiation, and consider in particular single vector boson hadroproduction.

Keywords

parton shower next-to-leading order qcd quantum chromodynamics corrections

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@article{arxiv.1002.4293,
  title  = {Matching NLO QCD computations with PYTHIA using MC@NLO},
  author = {Paolo Torrielli and Stefano Frixione},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.4293},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

16 pages, 10 figures. Several comments and two figures have been added

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