KK MC-hh: Resummed exact O(α2L) EW corrections in a hadronic MC event generator

S. Jadach, B. F. L. Ward, Z. A. Was, and S. A. Yost
Phys. Rev. D 94, 074006 – Published 4 October 2016

Abstract

We present an improvement of the Monte Carlo (MC) event generator Herwiri2, where we recall the latter MC was a prototype for the inclusion of CEEX resummed electroweak (EW) corrections in hadron-hadron scattering at high center of momentum system (cms) energies. In this improvement the new exact O(α2L) resummed EW generator KKMC 4.22, featuring as it does the CEEX realization of resummation in the EW sector, is put in union with the Herwig parton shower environment. The Les Houches (LHE) format of the attendant output event file means that all other conventional parton shower environments are available to the would-be user of the resulting new MC. For this reason (and others—see the text) we henceforth refer to the new improvement of the Herwiri2 MC as KKMC-hh. Since this new MC features exact O(α) pure weak corrections from the DIZET EW library and features the CEEX and the EEX YFS-style resummation of large multiple photon effects, it provides already the concrete path to 0.05% precision on such effects if we focus on the EW effects themselves. We therefore show predictions for observable distributions and comparisons with other approaches in the literature. This MC represents an important step in the realization of the exact amplitude-based QEDQCD resummation paradigm. Independently of this latter observation, the MC rigorously quantifies important EW effects in the current LHC experiments.

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  • Received 4 August 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.074006

© 2016 American Physical Society

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Authors & Affiliations

S. Jadach*

  • Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, PL-31342 Krakow, Poland

B. F. L. Ward

  • Baylor University, Waco, Texas 76798, USA

Z. A. Was

  • Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, PL-31342 Krakow, Poland

S. A. Yost§

  • Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, PL-31342 Krakow, Poland and The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina 29409, USA

  • *stanislaw.jadach@ifj.edu.pl
  • bfl_ward@baylor.edu
  • zbigniew.was@ifj.edu.pl
  • §scott.yost@citadel.edu

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Vol. 94, Iss. 7 — 1 October 2016

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