A partitioned dipole-antenna shower with improved transverse recoil
Christian T. Preuss
Abstract
A bstract The implementation of a new final-state parton-shower algorithm in the P ythia event generator is described. The shower algorithm, dubbed A pollo , combines central aspects of the V incia antenna shower with the global transverse-recoil scheme of the A laric framework in order to achieve formal consistency with next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) resummation. The shower algorithm is constructed in such a way that it facilitates a straightforward combination with fixed-order calculations. As an explicit proof of concept, a general scheme for matrix-element corrections (MECs) and two separate multiplicative next-to-leading order (NLO) matching schemes are outlined. It is argued that both matching schemes retain the logarithmic accuracy of the shower. The improved modelling of radiation is examined by contrasting the new algorithm with existing leading-logarithmic parton showers in P ythia .