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NLO efforts in Herwig++

Year: 2016
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: With the advent and recent extension of the BLHA standard to interface Monte Carlo event generators and one-loop matrix element providers, the Herwig++ event generator has expanded its range of applicability to a multitude of underlying hard processes at NLO QCD.The new NLO development is centered around the Matchbox framework, which turns fixed NLO QCD calculations into parton shower matched calculations -to be matched to the two parton shower variants of Herwig++.Matchbox provides thereby for the automated setup of the underlying fixed NLO QCD calculations and the interface to the one-loop matrix element providers, as well as for an efficient and automated multi-channel phase space sampling, and forms the basis for the NLO capabilities of the new release of Herwig++.Along with several other new features and developments, the new release marks the end of distinguishing Herwig++ and (Fotran) HERWIG, and constitutes the first major release of version 7 of the Herwig event generator.
DOI: 10.22323/1.235.0050
Authors: Christian Reuschle, Johannes Bellm, Stefan Gieseke, David Grellscheid, Simon Plätzer, Michael Rauch, Peter Richardson, Peter Schichtel, Michael Seymour, Andrzej Konrad Siodmok, Alexandra Wilcock, Nadine Fischer, Marco Harrendorf, Graeme Nail, Andreas Papaefstathiou, Daniel Rauch
Institutions: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Florida State University, Durham University, University of Manchester, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2307326790
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