Hamilton, K;
Richardson, P;
Tully, J;
(2008)
A Positive-Weight Next-to-Leading Order Monte Carlo Simulation of Drell-Yan Vector Boson Production.
The Journal of High Energy Physics
, 2008
(10)
, Article 15. 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/015.
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Abstract
The positive weight next-to-leading-order (NLO) matching scheme (POWHEG) is applied to Drell-Yan vector boson production in the Herwig++ Monte Carlo event generator. This approach consistently combines the NLO calculation and parton shower simulation, without the production of negative weight events. The simulation includes a full implementation of the truncated shower required to correctly describe soft emissions in an angular-ordered parton shower, for the first time. The results are compared with Tevatron W and Z production data and predictions for the transverse momentum spectrum of gauge bosons at the LHC presented.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A Positive-Weight Next-to-Leading Order Monte Carlo Simulation of Drell-Yan Vector Boson Production |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/015 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/015 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | c SISSA 2008 |
| Keywords: | QCD, Phenomenological Models, Hadronic Colliders |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1356098 |
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