https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4513-y
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Generation of central exclusive final states
1
Department of Theoretical Physics, Sölvegatan 14A, 223 62, Lund, Sweden
2
Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, V Holešovičkách 2, Prague 8, Czech Republic
* e-mail: zlebcr@mail.desy.de
Received:
15
August
2016
Accepted:
14
November
2016
Published online:
3
December
2016
We present a scheme for the generation of central exclusive final states in the program. The implementation allows for the investigation of higher-order corrections to such exclusive processes as approximated by the initial-state parton shower in . To achieve this, the spin and colour decomposition of the initial-state shower has been worked out, in order to determine the probability that a partonic state generated from an inclusive sub-process followed by a series of initial-state parton splittings can be considered as an approximation of an exclusive colour- and spin-singlet process. We use our implementation to investigate the effects of parton showers on some examples of central exclusive processes, and we find sizeable effects on di-jet production, while the effects on e.g. central exclusive Higgs production are minor.
© The Author(s), 2016
