Speaker
Mathias Ritzmann
(IPhT CEA/Saclay)
Description
I present recent developments in Vincia.
Vincia is a parton shower program, implemented as a plugin to Pythia 8, which emphasises efficient matching to fixed-order matrix elements and comprehensive estimates of uncertainties.
I discuss the extension of Vincia to hadronic initial states, a first step to LHC applications.
I also present the implementation of a shower evolving partons with identified helicities, which greatly speeds up matching to tree-level matrix elements.
Authors
Mr
Andrew Larkoski
(MIT)
Mr
David Kosower
(IPhT CEA/Saclay)
Mr
Juan Jose Lopez Villarejo
(IPhT CEA/Saclay)
Mathias Ritzmann
(IPhT CEA/Saclay)
Mr
Peter Skands
(CERN)
