Eur. Phys. J. C (2018) 78: 601
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6070-z

Letter

Colour rearrangement for dipole showers

Theoretical Particle Physics, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

^* e-mail: johannes.bellm@thep.lu.se

Received: 29 January 2018
Accepted: 13 July 2018
Published online: 26 July 2018

Abstract

We present an algorithm to rearrange the colour chains of dipole showers in the shower process according to the colour amplitudes of a simple matrix element. We implement the procedure in the dipole shower of Herwig and show comparisons to data.