11–15 Dec 2023
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

Parton Showering Meets QCD

13 Dec 2023, 10:45
30m
4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

CERN

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Speaker

Gregory Soyez (IPhT, CEA Saclay)

Description

Monte Carlo event generators are central tools in today's particle physics community. In this talk, I will focus on their central part, the parton shower algorithm. I will discuss how, from a perturbative QCD standpoint, one can define, assess and improve their (logarithmic) accuracy.

Author

Gregory Soyez (IPhT, CEA Saclay)

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