Drell-Yan lepton pair production at NNLO QCD with parton showers

Abstract

We present a simple approach to combine NNLO QCD calculations and parton showers, based on the UNLOPS technique. We apply the method to the computation of Drell-Yan lepton-pair production at the Large Hadron Collider. We comment on possible improvements and intrinsic uncertainties.

arXiv comment9 pages, 1 table, 3 figures

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