2015/11/30 by Rikkert Frederix, Stefano Frixione, Andreas Papaefstathiou +2 · 20 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #ATLAS experiment #Boson #Electroweak interaction #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Jet (fluid) #Large Hadron Collider #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Parton #Parton shower #Physics #Production (economics) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Vector boson #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep02(2016)131
published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2016(2) (Springer Nature) · 43 pages, 47 figures. In v2 the two plots of fig. 26 have been updated, and the text modified accordingly, following a fix in the relevant Rivet analysis. Minor changes in the acknowledgments and affiliations. Clarifications and one reference added in v3
openalex publication_date 2016/02/01 · arxiv created 2016/02/23 · arxiv updated 2016/03/23 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We consider the production of a single Z or W boson in association with jets at the LHC. We compute the corresponding cross sections by matching NLO QCD predictions with the Herwig++ and Pythia8 parton showers, and by merging all of the underlying matrix elements with up to two light partons at the Born level. We compare our results with several 7-TeV measurements by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, and overall we find a good agreement between theory and data.