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Leif Lönnblad

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Generation of central exclusive final states

Author

  • Leif Lönnblad
  • Radek Zlebcik

Summary, in English

We present a scheme for the generation of central exclusive final states in the program. The implementation allows for the investigation of higher-order corrections to such exclusive processes as approximated by the initial-state parton shower in . To achieve this, the spin and colour decomposition of the initial-state shower has been worked out, in order to determine the probability that a partonic state generated from an inclusive sub-process followed by a series of initial-state parton splittings can be considered as an approximation of an exclusive colour- and spin-singlet process. We use our implementation to investigate the effects of parton showers on some examples of central exclusive processes, and we find sizeable effects on di-jet production, while the effects on e.g. central exclusive Higgs production are minor.

Department/s

  • Theoretical Particle Physics - Has been reorganised

Publishing year

2016-12-03

Language

English

Publication/Series

European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields

Volume

76

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • jet: production, jet: final state, quantum chromodynamics: correction, correction: higher-order, parton: showers, parton: splitting, PYTHIA, numerical calculations: Monte Carlo

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1434-6044