QCD and Monte Carlo event generators

Abstract

Shower Monte Carlo event generators have played an important role in particle physics. Modern experiments would hardly be possible without them. In this talk I discuss how QCD physics is incorporated into the mathematical structure of these programs and I outline recent developments including matching between events with different numbers of hard jets and the inclusion of next-to-leading order effects.

arXiv commentPlenary talk by D. Soper at XIV Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS2006)

Cited by in corpus (1)

• Precision electroweak calculation of the production of a high transverse-momentum lepton pair at hadron colliders