Recent developments in Monte-Carlo Event Generators

Abstract

With Run II of the LHC having started, the need for high precision theory predictions whose uncertainty matches that of the data to be taken necessitated a range of new developments in Monte-Carlo Event Generators. This talk will give an overview of the progress in recent years in the field and what can and cannot be expected from these newly written tools.

6 pages, 5 figures, ISMD 2015 proceedings

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