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QED X QCD Exponentiation: Shower/ME Matching and IR-Improved DGLAP Theory at the LHC
We discuss the elements of QED X QCD exponentiation and its interplay with
shower/ME matching and IR-improved DGLAP theory in precision LHC physics
scenarios. Applications to single heavy gauge boson production at hadron
colliders are illustrated.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure; presented by B.F.L. Ward at ICHEP0
New Approach to Parton Shower MC's for Precision QCD Theory: HERWIRI1.0(31)
By implementing the new IR-improved
Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi-Callan-Symanzik (DGLAP-CS) kernels
recently developed by one of us in the HERWIG6.5 environment we generate a new
MC, HERWIRI1.0(31), for hadron-hadron scattering at high energies. We use MC
data to illustrate the comparison between the parton shower generated by the
standard DGLAP-CS kernels and that generated by the new IR-improved DGLAP-CS
kernels. The interface to MC@NLO, MC@NLO/HERWIRI, is illustrated. Comparisons
with FNAL data and some discussion of possible implications for LHC
phenomenology are also presented.Comment: 24 pages, 10 figures; published versio
QED \otimes QCD Threshold Corrections at the LHC
We use the theory of YFS resummation to compute the size of the expected
resummed soft radiative threshold effects in precision studies of heavy
particle production at the LHC, where accuracies of 1 percent are desired in
some processes. We find that the soft QED threshold effects are at the level of
0.3 percent whereas the soft QCD threshold effects enter at the level of 20
percent and hence both must be controlled to be on the conservative side to
achieve such goals.Comment: 8 pages, no figures; improved text; improved refs. and tex
The Virtual Correction to Bremsstrahlung in High-Energy e+ e- Annihilation: Comparison of Exact Results
We have compared the virtual corrections to single hard bremsstrahlung as
calculated by S. Jadach, M. Melles, B.F.L. Ward and S.A. Yost to several other
expressions. The most recent of these comparisons is to the leptonic tensor
calculated by J.H. Kuhn and G. Rodrigo for radiative return. Agreement is found
to within a part in 10^5 or better, as a fraction of the Born cross section,
for most of the range of photon energies. The massless limits have been shown
to agree analytically to NLL order.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures. Presented by S.A. Yost at ICHEP 2004,
International Conference on High Energy Physics, Beijing, August 16-22, 200
Exact Differential O(alpha**2) Results for Hard Bremsstrahlung in e+e- Annihilation to 2f At and Beyond LEP2 Energies
We present the exact O(alpha) correction to the process e+ e- -> f f-bar +
gamma, f neq e, for ISR oplus FSR at and beyond LEP2 energies. We give explicit
formulas for the completely differential cross section. As an important
application, we compute the size of the respective sub-leading corrections of
O(alpha L) to the f f-bar cross section, where L is the respective big
logarithm in the renormalization group sense so that it is identifiable as L =
ln |s|/m_e^2 when s is the squared e+e- cms energy. Comparisons are made with
the available literature. We show explicitly that our results have the correct
infrared limit, as a cross-check. Some comments are made about the
implementation of our results in the framework of the Monte Carlo event
generator KK MC.Comment: 26 pages, 5 figs.;improved discussion, figs. and
definitions;corrected misprint
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