https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5374-8
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Improving the simulation of quark and gluon jets with Herwig 7
1
Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
2
Theory Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
3
Department of Physics, IPPP, Durham University, Durham, UK
4
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL-31342, Krakow, Poland
* e-mail: andrzej.siodmok@ifj.edu.pl
Received:
15
September
2017
Accepted:
5
November
2017
Published online:
16
December
2017
The properties of quark and gluon jets, and the differences between them, are increasingly important at the LHC. However, Monte Carlo event generators are normally tuned to data from 
collisions which are primarily sensitive to quark-initiated jets. In order to improve the description of gluon jets we make improvements to the perturbative and the non-perturbative modelling of gluon jets and include data with gluon-initiated jets in the tuning for the first time. The resultant tunes significantly improve the description of gluon jets and are now the default in Herwig 7.1.
© The Author(s), 2017
