Speaker
Haitao Li
(Monash)
Description
A framework is presented for including second-order perturbative corrections to the radiation patterns of parton showers. The formalism allows to combine $O(\alpha_s^2)$-corrected iterated 2$\to$3 kernels for "ordered" gluon emissions with tree-level 2$\to$4 kernels for "unordered" ones. The combined Sudakov evolution kernel is thus accurate to $O(\alpha_s^2)$. As a first step towards a full-fledged implementation of these ideas, we develop an explicit implementation of 2$\to$4 shower branchings in this letter.
Author
Haitao Li
(Monash)
