2008

Parton showers with quantum interference: leading color, spin averaged

Nagy, Zoltan, Soper, Davison E.

Understand

We have previously described a mathematical formulation for a parton shower based on the approximation of strongly ordered virtualities of successive parton splittings.

  • Quantum interference, including interference among different color and spin states, is included.
  • In this paper, we add the further approximations of taking only the leading color limit and averaging over spins, as is common in parton shower Monte Carlo event generators.
  • Soft gluon interference effects remain with this approximation.

Built on

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    1985

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    Earlier work this paper cites.

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    1987

    Earlier work this paper cites.

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    1992

    Earlier work this paper cites.

  • G. Marchesini, B. R. Webber, G. Abbiendi, I. G. Knowles, M. H. Seymour and L. Stanco, HERWIG: A Monte Carlo event generator for simulating hadron emission reactions with interfering gluons

    1992

    Earlier work this paper cites.

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