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Matching NLO QCD computations with PYTHIA using MC@NLO

Paolo Torrielli
(
- IPT, Lausanne
)
,
Stefano Frixione
(
- IPT, Lausanne and
- CERN
)

Feb, 2010

16 pages

Published in:

JHEP 04 (2010) 110

e-Print:

1002.4293 [hep-ph]

DOI:

10.1007/JHEP04(2010)110

Report number:

CERN-TH-2010-030

Experiments:

MC@NLO

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Abstract: (arXiv)

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.

Note:

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

NLO Computations
Hadronic Colliders
QCD
radiation: initial-state interaction
parton: showers
higher-order: 1
quantum chromodynamics
PYTHIA
p p: interaction
gauge boson: hadroproduction

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