Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-07-21
Nuovo Cim.B123:S1,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
8 pages, 5 figures, Submitted to the Proceedings of Top2008, 18-24 May 2008, La Biodola, Isola d'Elba, Italy
Scientific paper
The modelling of non-perturbative effects is an important part of modern collider physics simulations. In hadron collisions there is some indication that the modelling of the interactions of the beam remnants, the underlying event, may require non-trivial colour reconnection effects to be present. We recently introduced a universally applicable toy model of such reconnections, based on hadronising strings. This model, which has one free parameter, has been implemented in the Pythia event generator. We then considered several parameter sets (`tunes'), constrained by fits to Tevatron minimum-bias data, and determined the sensitivity of a simplified top mass analysis to these effects, in exclusive semi-leptonic top events at the Tevatron. A first attempt at isolating the genuine non-perturbative effects gave an estimate of order +-0.5GeV from non-perturbative uncertainties. The results presented here are an update to the original study and include recent bug fixes of Pythia that influenced the tunings investigated.
Skands Peter Zeiler
Wicke Daniel
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