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Combining parton showers and NNLO matrix elements

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 نشر من قبل Stefan Prestel
 تاريخ النشر 2015
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In this talk, we discuss recent developments in combining parton showers and fixed-order calculations. We focus on the UNNLOPS method for matching next-to-next-to-leading order computations to the parton shower, and we present results from Sherpa for Drell-Yan lepton-pair and Higgs-boson production at the LHC.



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