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arXiv · 2311.11000

Comparison of CMS measurements with predictions at NLO applying the Parton Branching Method and PYTHIA

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In August 2023, more than 30 students joined the Special Remote DESY summer-school to work on projects of importance for LHC experiments. In a dedicated initiative, analyses that had not been incorporated into the RIVET package were implemented and verified. Here, a brief description of the accomplished work is given, and a comparison of the measurements with predictions obtained from matched standard parton shower Monte Carlo event generators as well as with those obtained from Parton-Branching TMDs with corresponding parton showers are presented.

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Fernando Guzman, Si Hyun Jeon, Hannes Jung, Danyer Perez Adan, Sara Taheri Monfared, Fateme Almaksusi, Daniel Belmonte Perez, Dorukhan Boncukcu, Aleksandr Boger, Emmanuel Botero Osorio, Isadora Bozza Galvão, Juan Esteban Ospina Holguin, Behnam Falahi, Faeze Gagonani, Omar Gonzalez, Acelya Deniz Güngördü, Abdelhamid Haddad, Mahtab Jalalvandi, Josue Daniel Jaramillo, Jesus Jimenez Zepeda, Gleb Kutyrev, Nazanin Zahra Noroozi, Nestor Raul Mancilla Xinto, Haritz Mentaste, Lucas Johnny Monte Tamayo, Fernanda Mora Rey, Inmaculada Moyano-Rejano, Vibha Padmanabhan, Mayvi Pedraza, Swapnil Rathore, Cristina Ruiz Gonzalez, Caue E. Sousa, Quratulain Zahoor, Haoliang Zheng. 2023-11-18. Comparison of CMS measurements with predictions at NLO applying the Parton Branching Method and PYTHIA. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11000

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