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Title: The midpoint between dipole and parton showers

Journal Article · · European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields
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  1. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

We present a new parton-shower algorithm. Borrowing from the basic ideas of dipole cascades, the evolution variable is judiciously chosen as the transverse momentum in the soft limit. This leads to a very simple analytic structure of the evolution. A weighting algorithm is implemented, that allows to consistently treat potentially negative values of the splitting functions and the parton distributions. We provide two independent, publicly available implementations for the two event generators Pythia and Sherpa.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00515; AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1225796
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1502955
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-16304; PII: 3684
Journal Information:
European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields, Vol. 75, Issue 9; ISSN 1434-6044
Publisher:
SpringerCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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