Logarithmically-accurate and positive-definite NLO shower matching

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Main Authors: van Beekveld, Melissa, Ravasio, Silvia Ferrario, Helliwell, Jack, Karlberg, Alexander, Salam, Gavin P., Scyboz, Ludovic, Soto-Ontoso, Alba, Soyez, Gregory, Zanoli, Silvia
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Published: 2025
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author van Beekveld, Melissa
Ravasio, Silvia Ferrario
Helliwell, Jack
Karlberg, Alexander
Salam, Gavin P.
Scyboz, Ludovic
Soto-Ontoso, Alba
Soyez, Gregory
Zanoli, Silvia
author_facet van Beekveld, Melissa
Ravasio, Silvia Ferrario
Helliwell, Jack
Karlberg, Alexander
Salam, Gavin P.
Scyboz, Ludovic
Soto-Ontoso, Alba
Soyez, Gregory
Zanoli, Silvia
contents We present methods to achieve NLL+NLO accurate parton showering for processes with two coloured legs: neutral- and charged-current Drell-Yan, and Higgs production in $pp$ collisions, as well as DIS and $e^+e^-$ to jets. The methods include adaptations of existing approaches, as well as a new NLO matching scheme, ESME, that is positive-definite by construction. Our implementations of the methods within the PanScales framework yield highly competitive NLO event generation speeds. We validate the fixed-order and combined resummation accuracy with tests in the limit of small QCD coupling and briefly touch on phenomenological comparisons to standard NLO results and to Drell-Yan data. The progress reported here is an essential step towards showers with logarithmic accuracy beyond NLL for processes with incoming hadrons.
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spellingShingle Logarithmically-accurate and positive-definite NLO shower matching
van Beekveld, Melissa
Ravasio, Silvia Ferrario
Helliwell, Jack
Karlberg, Alexander
Salam, Gavin P.
Scyboz, Ludovic
Soto-Ontoso, Alba
Soyez, Gregory
Zanoli, Silvia
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We present methods to achieve NLL+NLO accurate parton showering for processes with two coloured legs: neutral- and charged-current Drell-Yan, and Higgs production in $pp$ collisions, as well as DIS and $e^+e^-$ to jets. The methods include adaptations of existing approaches, as well as a new NLO matching scheme, ESME, that is positive-definite by construction. Our implementations of the methods within the PanScales framework yield highly competitive NLO event generation speeds. We validate the fixed-order and combined resummation accuracy with tests in the limit of small QCD coupling and briefly touch on phenomenological comparisons to standard NLO results and to Drell-Yan data. The progress reported here is an essential step towards showers with logarithmic accuracy beyond NLL for processes with incoming hadrons.
title Logarithmically-accurate and positive-definite NLO shower matching
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05377