Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-11-08
JHEP 1103:032,2011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
10.1007/JHEP03(2011)032
General-purpose Monte Carlo event generators have become important tools in particle physics, allowing the simulation of exclusive hadronic final states. In this article we examine the Pythia 8 generator, in particular focusing on its parton-shower algorithms. Some relevant new additions to the code are introduced, that should allow for a better description of data. We also implement and compare with 2 to 3 real-emission QCD matrix elements, to check how well the shower algorithm fills the phase space away from the soft and collinear regions. A tuning of the generator to Tevatron data is performed for two PDF sets and the impact of first new LHC data is examined.
Corke Richard
Sjostrand Torbjörn
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