Improving the simulation of quark and gluon jets with Herwig 7

Reichelt, Daniel; Richardson, Peter; Siodmok, Andrzej

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5374-8

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Authors

Mr Daniel Reichelt daniel.reichelt@durham.ac.uk
Post Doctoral Research Associate

Professor Peter Richardson peter.richardson@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Andrzej Siodmok

Abstract

The properties of quark and gluon jets, and the differences between them, are increasingly important at the LHC. However, Monte Carlo event generators are normally tuned to data from e+e−e+e− collisions which are primarily sensitive to quark-initiated jets. In order to improve the description of gluon jets we make improvements to the perturbative and the non-perturbative modelling of gluon jets and include data with gluon-initiated jets in the tuning for the first time. The resultant tunes significantly improve the description of gluon jets and are now the default in Herwig 7.1.

Citation

Reichelt, D., Richardson, P., & Siodmok, A. (2017). Improving the simulation of quark and gluon jets with Herwig 7. The European Physical Journal C, 77(12), Article 876. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5374-8

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Nov 5, 2017
Online Publication Date	Dec 16, 2017
Publication Date	Dec 16, 2017
Deposit Date	Jan 5, 2018
Publicly Available Date	Jan 5, 2018
Journal	European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
Print ISSN	1434-6044
Electronic ISSN	1434-6052
Publisher	SpringerOpen
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	77
Issue	12
Article Number	876
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5374-8

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