165 research outputs found
The Colour-Dipole model and the Ariadne program at high Q^2
I present a modification of the Colour Dipole Model for DIS as implemented in
Ariadne to better describe events at high Q^2.Comment: To be published in the proceedings of the HERA Monte Carlo workshop,
Hamburg, Germany, 1998-199
Fooling Around with the Sudakov Veto Algorithm
The Sudakov veto algorithm for generating emission and no-emission
probabilities in parton showers is revisited and some reweighting techniques
are suggested to improve statistics by oversampling in specific cases
The Linked Dipole Chain Monte Carlo
We present an implementation of the Linked Dipole Chain model for deeply
inelastic ep scattering into the framework of the Ariadne event generator.
Using this implementation we obtain results both for the inclusive structure
function as well as for exclusive properties of the hadronic final state. (The
original publication was based on results from an implementation containing an
error. In this revised version this error has been corrected, some of the
beyond leading-log assumptions have been revised and so have some of the
results.)Comment: 26 page
Small-x Physics and Forward Jet Production at THERA
We discuss some aspects of forward jet production as a signature for small
physics at THERA energies.Comment: to appear in THERA Boo
Merging Multi-leg NLO Matrix Elements with Parton Showers
We discuss extensions the CKKW-L and UMEPS tree-level matrix element and
parton shower merging approaches to next-to-leading order accuracy.
The generalisation of CKKW-L is based on the NL3 scheme previously developed
for e+e- -annihilation, which is extended to also handle hadronic collisions by
a careful treatment of parton densities. NL3 is further augmented to allow for
more readily accessible NLO input.
To allow for a more careful handling of merging scale dependencies we
introduce an extension of the UMEPS method. This approach, dubbed UNLOPS, does
not inherit problematic features of CKKW-L, and thus allows for a theoretically
more appealing definition of NLO merging.
We have implemented both schemes in Pythia8, and present results for the
merging of W- and Higgs-production events, where the zero- and one-jet
contribution are corrected to next-to-leading order simultaneously, and higher
jet multiplicities are described by tree-level matrix elements. The
implementation of the procedure is completely general and can be used for
higher jet multiplicities and other processes, subject to the availability of
programs able to correctly generate the corresponding partonic states to
leading and next-to-leading order accuracy.Comment: updated references, submitted to JHE
Unitarising Matrix Element + Parton Shower merging
We revisit the CKKW-L method for merging tree-level matrix elements with
parton showers, and amend it with an add/subtract scheme to minimise
dependencies on the merging scale. The scheme is constructed to, as far as
possible, recover the unitary nature of the underlying parton shower, so that
the inclusive cross section is retained for each jet multiplicity separately.Comment: 30 pages, 13 figures, updated references, submitted to JHE
Monte Carlo Generators and the CCFM Equation
We discuss three implementations of the CCFM evolution equations in event
generator programs. We find that some of them are able to describe observables
such as forward jet rates in DIS at HERA, but only if the so-called consistency
constraint is removed. We also find that these results are sensitive to the
treatment of non-singular terms in the gluon splitting function.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Talk presented at the DIS 2000 workshop,
Liverpool, England, April 200
Summary of activities in the Working Group on QCD Cascades of the HERA Monte Carlo workshop
We summarize the activities in working group 10 concerned with QCD cascades,
and find that although much work still needs to be done, much progress was made
during this workshop in understanding the merits and deficiencies of different
programs.Comment: To be published in the proceedings of the HERA Monte Carlo workshop,
Hamburg, Germany, 1998-199
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