Published July 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

NLO QCD Evolution in the Fully Unintegrated Form

  • 1. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342, Cracow (Poland)

Description

The next-to-leading order (NLO) evolution of the parton distribution functions (PDF's) in QCD is the '' industry standard '' in the lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron collider data analysis. The standard NLO DGLAP evolution is formulated for inclusive (integrated) PDFs and is done using inclusive NLO kernels. We report here on the ongoing project, called KRKMC, in which NLO DGLAP evolution is performed for the exclusive multiparton (fully unintegrated) distributions (ePDF's) with the help of the exclusive kernels. These kernels are calculated within the two-parton phase space for Bremsstrahlung subset of the Feynman diagrams of the nonsinglet evolution, using Curci-Furmanski-Petronzio factorization scheme. The multiparton distribution with multiple use of the exclusive NLO kernels is implemented in the Monte Carlo program simulating multi-gluon emission from single quark emitter. With high statistics tests (∼ 109 events) it is shown that the new scheme works perfectly well in practice and is equivalent at the inclusive level with the traditional inclusive NLO DGLAP evolution. Once completed, this Monte Carlo module is aimed as a building block for the NLO parton shower Monte Carlo, for W/Z production at LHC and for ep scattering, as well as a starting point for other perturbative QCD based Monte Carlo projects. (authors)

Availability note (English)

Also available at http://th-www.if.uj.edu.pl/acta/

Additional details

Additional titles

Augmented title (English)
PACS numbers: 12.38.-t, 12.38.Bx, 12.38.Cy

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Acta Physica Polonica. Series B
Journal Volume
B40
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 2071-2096
ISSN
0587-4254

Conference

Title
Cracow Epiphany Conference on Hadron Interactions at the Dawn of the LHC
Dates
5-7 Jan 2009
Place
Cracow (Poland)