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A positive-weight next-to-leading-order Monte Carlo for e+e - annihilation to hadrons


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Authors

Latunde-Dada, O 
Gieseke, S 

Abstract

We apply the positive-weight Monte Carlo method of Nason for simulating QCD processes accurate to Next-To-Leading Order to the case of e+e- annihilation to hadrons. The method entails the generation of the hardest gluon emission first and then subsequently adding a `truncated' shower before the emission. We have interfaced our result to the Herwig++ shower Monte Carlo program and obtained better results than those obtained with Herwig++ at leading order with a matrix element correction.

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QCD, NLO computations, phenomenological models, LEP HERA and SLC physics

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Journal of High Energy Physics

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1029-8479
1029-8479

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC