PS/ME matching in Pythia and Herwig
Project description:
To continue the study of matching in a
hadronic enviroment already implemented for
W and Z production at the Tevatron. The main approach here
would be: (1) the
pseudoshower method (very close to Leif's inverse cascade, but
generalized for implementation
in generators besides Ariadne that are not pt-ordered) and (2) the
simpler method proposed
by M. Mangano. Studies of the dependence on various choices would
be considered, including
variation of the clustering scheme, use of color information, etc.
Contact Person:
Participants:
Stephen Mrenna
(Fermilab)
Help Needed:
None at the moment. It may
make sense to combine this with the Ariadne project and share data
sets, etc.
References:
Matching Matrix Elements
and Parton Showers with HERWIG and PYTHIA,
By
Stephen
Mrenna
(
Fermilab
&
Michigan
U., MCTP),
Peter
Richardson
(
CERN),.
FERMILAB-PUB-03-181, Dec 2003. 58pp.
e-Print Archive:
hep-ph/0312274
Correcting
the Colour-Dipole Cascade Model with Fixed Order Matrix
Elements,
L. Lönnblad,
J. High Energy Phys. 05 (2002)
046.
QCD
matrix elements + parton showers, S. Catani, et al.,
J.
High Energy Phys. 11 (2001) 063
Milestones:
Preliminary results to be presented at
the working group meeting at DESY in the beginning of June.
Working implementation to be presented at the October meeting at CERN
Status:
(2004.04.02) The matching has been
implemented for W-production, but there are still some problems which
have not been solved.
For DIS the implementation has begun, but is not quite ready.