Speaker
Description
In the coming years, the Electron-Ion-Collider (EIC) in the United States will enable researchers to study lepton-hadron collisions with unprecedented precision. To consolidate figures of merit of a variety of measurements at the EIC, it is essential to include radiative corrections in simulations of electron-proton and electron-nucleus collisions. For the time being, there do not exist any automated simulation tools for such reactions, including even only next-to-leading order (NLO) radiative corrections.
In this talk, I will present our recent progress in the implementation of photoproduction, where the photon is either coming from an electron or from a proton in an ultra-peripheral collision at the LHC. We perform the calculations at NLO in the fixed-order mode within MadGraph5_aMC@NLO, a framework for (N)LO computation, intensively used at the LHC. In addition, I will also present the development for asymmetric hadron collisions in order to provide predictions e.g. for proton-nucleus collisions.
