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Andy Buckley, Hendrik Hoeth, Holger Schulz, Jan Eike von Seggern
Monte Carlo event generator validation and tuning for the LHC
Abstract
We summarise the motivation for, and the status of, the tools developed by
CEDAR/MCnet for validating and tuning Monte Carlo event generators for the
LHC against data from previous colliders. We then present selected
preliminary results from studies of event shapes and hadronisation
observables from e+e- colliders, and of minimum bias and underlying event
observables from the Tevatron, and comment on the approach needed with
early LHC data to best exploit the potential for new physics discoveries
at the LHC in the next few years.
LU TP 09-19
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