Logarithmically-accurate and positive-definite NLO shower matching

Abstract

We present methods to achieve NLL+NLO accurate parton showering for processes with two coloured legs: neutral- and charged-current Drell-Yan, and Higgs production in $pp$ collisions, as well as DIS and $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ to jets. The methods include adaptations of existing approaches, as well as a new NLO matching scheme, ESME, that is positive-definite by construction. Our implementations of the methods within the PanScales framework yield highly competitive NLO event generation speeds. We validate the fixed-order and combined resummation accuracy with tests in the limit of small QCD coupling and briefly touch on phenomenological comparisons to standard NLO results and to Drell-Yan data. The progress reported here is an essential step towards showers with logarithmic accuracy beyond NLL for processes with incoming hadrons.

29 pages main text, 49 including appendices and references, 12 figures, public code available as part of 0.3.0 release of PanScales under http://gitlab.com/panscales/panscales-0.X; v2 matches the published version

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