Matching NLO QCD computations with PYTHIA using MC@NLO

Abstract

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.

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

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