NLO and Parton Showers: the POWHEG-BOX

Abstract

We describe the \POWHEGBOX{} package, a general computer code framework for implementing NLO calculations in Shower Monte Carlo programs according to the \POWHEG{} method.

5 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of Physics at the LHC 2010, DESY, Hamburg, 7-12 June 2010