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A Positive-Weight Next-to-Leading Order Monte Carlo Simulation of Drell-Yan Vector Boson Production

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. Green open access

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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
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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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