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W production in an improved parton-shower approach

Miu, Gabriela LU and Sjöstrand, Torbjörn LU orcid (1999) In Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 449(3-4). p.313-320
Abstract

In the description of the production properties of gauge bosons (W±, Z0, γ*) at colliders, the lowest-order graph normally is not sufficient. The contributions of higher orders can be introduced either by an explicit order-by-order matrix-element calculation, by a resummation procedure or by a parton-shower algorithm. Each approach has its advantages and disadvantages. We here introduce a method that allows the parton-shower algorithm to be augmented by higher-order information, thereby offering an economical route to a description of all event properties. It is tested by comparing with the P⊥ spectrum of W bosons at the Tevatron.

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