Matching tree-level matrix elements with interleaved showers

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Lönnblad, Leif ^a,b   Prestel, Stefan ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Jets; Parton model; Phenomenological Models; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859534346     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2012)019     Document Type: Article

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