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Parton showers with quantum interference: leading color, with spin

We have previously described a mathematical formulation for a parton shower based on the approximation of strongly ordered virtualities of successive parton splittings. Quantum interference, including interference among different color and spin states, was included. A practical numerical implementat...

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Autores principales: Nagy, Zoltan, Soper, Davison E.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/025
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1102626
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Sumario:We have previously described a mathematical formulation for a parton shower based on the approximation of strongly ordered virtualities of successive parton splittings. Quantum interference, including interference among different color and spin states, was included. A practical numerical implementation strategy was left unspecified. In a subsequent paper, we showed that if we add the further approximations of taking only the leading color limit and averaging over spins, we obtain a shower evolution that can be implemented as a Markov process. In this paper, we outline a strategy for including the correlations induced by parton spins.