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Interleaved parton showers and tuning prospects

Corke, Richard LU and Sjöstrand, Torbjörn LU orcid (2011) In Journal of High Energy Physics
Abstract
General-purpose Monte Carlo event generators have become important tools in particle physics, allowing the simulation of exclusive hadronic final states. In this article we examine the PYTHIA 8 generator, in particular focusing on its parton-shower algorithms. Some relevant new additions to the code are introduced, that should allow for a better description of data. We also implement and compare with 2 -> 3 real-emission QCD matrix elements, to check how well the shower algorithm fills the phase space away from the soft and collinear regions. A tuning of the generator to Tevatron data is performed for two PDF sets and the impact of first new LHC data is examined.
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  language     = {{eng}},
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  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  series       = {{Journal of High Energy Physics}},
  title        = {{Interleaved parton showers and tuning prospects}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2011)032}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/JHEP03(2011)032}},
  year         = {{2011}},
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