A Consistent Prescription for Combining Perturbative Calculations and Parton Showers in Case of Associated Z b anti-b Hadroproduction

Kersevan, B. P.; Hinchliffe, I.; Mijovic, L.

A Consistent Prescription for Combining Perturbative Calculations and Parton Showers in Case of Associated Z b anti-b Hadroproduction

Authors

Kersevan, B. P.

Hinchliffe, I.

Mijovic, L.

Description

This paper presents the method of combining parton shower formalism with perturbative calculations (matrix elements) in form of a Monte-Carlo algorithm for the process g g -> Z b anti-b,consistenlty including the heavy quark masses and overlap removal.
accepted by JHEP, revised according to suggestions from JHEP referee