Coherent Showers for the LHC

Abstract

We present a full-fledged antenna shower for hadron collisions in the Vincia framework and focus on initial state radiation. The current version of the shower is limited to massless QCD partons and colourless resonances. As a proof-of-concept for the applicability of tree-level matrix-element corrections a la GKS we study $Z$ boson production at the LHC, corrected up to Born + $\mathcal{O}(α_s^2)$, and show some first results with matrix-element corrections.

8 pages, 12th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (Radcor 2015) and LoopFest XIV (Radiative Corrections for the LHC and Future Colliders), 15-19 June 2015, UCLA Department of Physics & Astronomy Los Angeles, CA, USA