Merging parton showers and matrix elements - Back to basics

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Lavesson, Nils ^a   Lönnblad, Leif ^a  

^a Dept of Theoretical Physics ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Jets; Parton model; Phenomenological models; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449083999     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/085     Document Type: Article

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