Initial-state showering based on colour dipoles connected to incoming parton lines
arXiv:0712.3913 · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/040
Abstract
A parton-shower model for hadronic collisions based on the emission properties of QCD dipoles is proposed. This proposal therefore extends the well-known radiation pattern of pure final-state colour dipoles to QCD initial-state radiation, both of which are treated perturbatively. Corresponding dipole splitting functions are derived and the kinematics of all dipole splittings is discussed. Application to hadron production in electron-positron annihilation, to Drell-Yan lepton-pair and QCD jet production yields encouraging results.
57 pages, 17 figures
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