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- Buckley, Andy, et al.
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General-purpose event generators for LHC physics
- 2011
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In: Physics Reports. - : Elsevier BV. - 0370-1573. ; 504:5, s. 145-233
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Research review (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We review the physics basis, main features and use of general-purpose Monte Carlo event generators for the simulation of proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Topics included are: the generation of hard scattering matrix elements for processes of interest, at both leading and next-to-leading QCD perturbative order; their matching to approximate treatments of higher orders based on the showering approximation; the parton and dipole shower formulations; parton distribution functions for event generators; non-perturbative aspects such as soft QCD collisions, the underlying event and diffractive processes; the string and cluster models for hadron formation; the treatment of hadron and tau decays; the inclusion of QED radiation and beyond Standard Model processes. We describe the principal features of the ARIADNE, Herwig++, PYTHIA 8 and SHERPA generators, together with the Rivet and Professor validation and tuning tools, and discuss the physics philosophy behind the proper use of these generators and tools. This review is aimed at phenomenologists wishing to understand better how parton-level predictions are translated into hadron-level events as well as experimentalists seeking a deeper insight into the tools available for signal and background simulation at the LHC. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- Hoeche, Stefan, et al.
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Combining parton showers and NNLO matrix elements
- 2015
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In: Proceedings, 50th Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and high energy interactions: La Thuile, Italy, March 21-28, 2015. ; , s. 135-138
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)
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- Hoeche, Stefan, et al.
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Matching Parton Showers and Matrix Elements
- 2005
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In: CERN Reports. - 0007-8328. - 9290832657 ; CERN-2005-014, s. 288-299
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- We compare different procedures for combining fixed-order tree-level matrix element generators with parton showers. We use the case of W-production at the Tevatron and the LHC to compare different implementations of the so-called CKKW scheme and one based on the so-called MLM scheme using different matrix element generators and different parton cascades. We find that although similar results are obtained in all cases, there are important differences.
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