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Interleaved Resonance Decays and Electroweak Radiation in the Vincia Parton Shower

by Helen Brooks, Peter Skands, Rob Verheyen

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Rob Verheyen
Submission information
Preprint Link: scipost_202109_00013v1  (pdf)
Code repository: http://pythia.org
Date submitted: 2021-09-10 11:04
Submitted by: Verheyen, Rob
Submitted to: SciPost Physics
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Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • High-Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Approaches: Computational, Phenomenological

Abstract

We propose a framework for high-energy interactions in which resonance decays and electroweak branching processes are interleaved with the QCD evolution in a single com- mon sequence of decreasing resolution scales. The interleaved treatment of resonance decays allows for a new treatment of finite-width effects in parton showers. At scales above their offshellness (i.e., typically Q > Γ ), resonances participate explicitly as incom- ing and outgoing states in branching processes, while they are effectively “integrated out” of the description at lower scales. We implement this formalism, together with a full set of antenna functions for branching processes involving electroweak (W/Z/H) bosons in the Vincia shower module in Pythia 8.3, and study some of the consequences

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Report #2 by Anonymous (Referee 2) on 2021-12-6 (Invited Report)

  • Cite as: Anonymous, Report on arXiv:scipost_202109_00013v1, delivered 2021-12-06, doi: 10.21468/SciPost.Report.4008

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The manuscript meets the general criteria of the journal and should be published once a number of points has been clarified.

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Author:  Rob Verheyen  on 2022-01-12  [id 2090]

(in reply to Report 2 on 2021-12-06)

Thanks for the careful reading and comments. Here we attach a response with a list of changes, which have now been resubmitted.

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Report #1 by Anonymous (Referee 1) on 2021-12-2 (Invited Report)

  • Cite as: Anonymous, Report on arXiv:scipost_202109_00013v1, delivered 2021-12-02, doi: 10.21468/SciPost.Report.3985

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Yes, after the authors address my comments/questions.

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  • clarity: high
  • formatting: good
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Author:  Rob Verheyen  on 2022-01-12  [id 2089]

(in reply to Report 1 on 2021-12-02)

Thanks for the careful reading and comments. Here we attach a response with a list of changes, which have now been resubmitted.

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response_1.pdf

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