Parton shower matching and merging

Abstract

With Run-II of the LHC starting its final year of data-taking, high precision theoretical predictions through Monte-Carlo event generators whose uncertainties match that of the recorded data are of highest importance. This talk summarises the progress of the field and highlight a number of recent developments.

10 pages, 7 figures, contribution to proceedings of "Corfu Summer Institute 2017 'School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity', 2-28 September 2017, Corfu, Greece"

References in corpus (15)

• The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations
• Event generation with SHERPA 1.1
• Herwig++ Physics and Manual
• Comparative study of various algorithms for the merging of parton showers and matrix elements in hadronic collisions
• NLO QCD matrix elements + parton showers in e+e- -> hadrons
• An NLO+PS generator for $t\bar{t}$ and $Wt$ production and decay including non-resonant and interference effects
• Drell-Yan lepton pair production at NNLO QCD with parton showers
• Higgs-boson production through gluon fusion at NNLO QCD with parton showers
• Parton Shower and NLO-Matching uncertainties in Higgs Boson Pair Production
• LHC multijet events as a probe for anomalous dimension-six gluon interactions
• Measuring collinear W emissions inside jets
• Full mass dependence in Higgs boson production in association with jets at the LHC and FCC
• Single top-quark production with SHERPA
• NLO electroweak automation and precise predictions for W+multijet production at the LHC
• NNLOPS accurate associated HZ production with NLO decay $\mathrm{H}\to b\bar{b}$