Matching NLO QCD computations with PYTHIA using MC@NLO

Feb, 2010
16 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 04 (2010) 110
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Report number:
  • CERN-TH-2010-030
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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