https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7533-6
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Spacetime colour reconnection in Herwig 7
1
Theoretical Particle Physics, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
2
School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
3
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany
4
Czech Technical University in Prague, Brehova 7, 115 19, Prague, Czech Republic
5
The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kraków, Poland
* e-mail: cody.duncan@monash.edu
Received:
29
September
2019
Accepted:
2
December
2019
Published online:
12
December
2019
We present a model for generating spacetime coordinates in the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig 7, and perform colour reconnection by minimizing a boost-invariant distance measure of the system. We compare the model to a series of soft physics observables. We find reasonable agreement with the data, suggesting that pp-collider colour reconnection may be able to be applied in larger systems.
© The Author(s), 2019