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)