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Introduction to Parton-Shower Event Generators

Journal Article ·
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  1. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
This lecture discusses the physics implemented by Monte Carlo event generators for hadron colliders. It details the construction of parton showers and the matching of parton showers to fixed-order calculations at higher orders in perturbative QCD. It also discusses approaches to merge calculations for a varying number of jets, the interface to the underlying event and hadronization.
Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1502954
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB--16160
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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