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We are developing a consistent method to combine tree-level event generators for hadron collision interactions with those including one additional QCD radiation from the initial-state partons, based on the limited leading-log (LLL) subtraction method, aiming at an application to NLO event generators. In this method, a boundary between non-radiative and radiative processes necessarily appears at the factorization scale (μF). The radiation effects are simulated using a parton shower (PS) in non-radiative processes. It is therefore crucial in our method to apply a PS which well reproduces the radiation activities evaluated from the matrix-element (ME) calculations for radiative processes. The PS activity depends on the applied kinematics model. In this paper we introduce two models for our simple initial-state leading-log PS: a model similar to the ’old’ PYTHIA-PS and a pT-prefixed model motivated by ME calculations. PS simulations employing these models are tested using W-boson production at LHC as an example. Both simulations show a smooth matching to the LLL subtracted W+1 jet simulation in the pT distribution of W bosons, and the summed pT spectra are stable against a variation of μF, despite that the pT-prefixed PS results in an apparently harder pT spectrum.
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Odaka, S., Kurihara, Y. Initial-state parton shower kinematics for NLO event generators. Eur. Phys. J. C 51, 867–873 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0342-3
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