Theorie-Palaver

June 5, 2012 at 2:30 p.m. in Sozialraum der WA THEP

Upalaparna Banerjee

Federico Gasparotto

Pouria Mazloumi

Yong Xu

Improving parton showers with multi-jet NLO calculations
Stefan Prestel (Lund University)


After reviewing merging of leading-order Matrix Elements with Parton Showers in the so-called CKKW-L scheme, I will argue how to extend the method to allow for inclusion of virtual corrections. A prescription to ensure NLO accuracy is presented and the implementation discussed for simple examples.