Combining parton showers and NNLO matrix elements

Abstract

In this talk, we discuss recent developments in combining parton showers and fixed-order calculations. We focus on the UNNLOPS method for matching next-to-next-to-leading order computations to the parton shower, and we present results from Sherpa for Drell-Yan lepton-pair and Higgs-boson production at the LHC.

4 pages, 2 figures, proceedings for Moriond QCD 2015