Theory Colloquia

Shower Monte Carlo's at Next-to-Leading Order

Name: Shower Monte Carlo's at Next-to-Leading Order
Start: 2011-11-30T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2011-11-30T15:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

by Paolo Nason (CERN)

Wednesday 30 Nov 2011, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

TH Theory Conference Room

CERN

Description

Shower Monte Carlo programs are indispensable tools for today's high energy physics phenomenology. In recent years, methods to improve these generators with the inclusion of Next-to-Leading order QCD effects have been put forward, and are actually being used by the experimental collaborations. In this talk I will illustrate the basic features of these methods, and I will review their status. I will then discuss a few issues related to their use, especially in regard to the estimate of theoretical uncertainties.