Hard photon production and matrix-element parton-shower merging

We present a Monte Carlo approach to prompt-photon production, where photons and QCD partons are treated democratically. The photon fragmentation function is modeled by an interleaved QCD+QED parton shower. This known technique is improved by including higher-order real-emission matrix elements. To...

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Hauptverfasser: Höche, Stefan (VerfasserIn) , Schumann, Steffen (VerfasserIn) , Siegert, Frank (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 19 February 2010
In: Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology
Year: 2010, Jahrgang: 81, Heft: 3, Pages: 1-14
ISSN:1550-2368
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.81.034026
Online-Zugang:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.034026
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Verfasserangaben:Stefan Höche, Steffen Schumann, and Frank Siegert
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Zusammenfassung:We present a Monte Carlo approach to prompt-photon production, where photons and QCD partons are treated democratically. The photon fragmentation function is modeled by an interleaved QCD+QED parton shower. This known technique is improved by including higher-order real-emission matrix elements. To this end, we extend a recently proposed algorithm for merging matrix elements and truncated parton showers. We exemplify the quality of the Monte Carlo predictions by comparing them to measurements of the photon fragmentation function at LEP and to measurements of prompt photon and diphoton production from the Tevatron experiments.
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ISSN:1550-2368
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.81.034026