Interleaved parton showers and tuning prospects

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Corke, Richard ^a   Sjöstrand, Torbjörn ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Phenomenological models; QCD phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053163317     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2011)032     Document Type: Article

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