Matching Parton Showers to NLO Computation

Abstract

In this review a new method is presented for attaching parton shower algorithms to NLO partonic jet cross sections in electron-positron annihilation. Our method is based on the Catani-Seymour dipole subtraction method and also uses an adaptation of the matching scheme of Catani, Krauss, Kuhn, and Webber.

arXiv commentPresented at the 40th Rencontres de Moriond ''QCD and Hadronic Interactions'', La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy, March 12th to 19th, 2005; 4 pages

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