Update of the MCSANC Monte Carlo Integrator, v.1.20

TL;DR

The paper introduces version 1.20 of the MCSANC Monte Carlo program, enhancing its capabilities to include new processes, photon-induced contributions, and electroweak corrections for precise Standard Model calculations at colliders.

Contribution

It presents new features and technical improvements in MCSANC v.1.20, enabling more accurate electroweak and QCD correction calculations for collider processes.

Findings

Implementation of Drell--Yan-like processes

Systematic treatment of photon-induced contributions

Calculation of forward-backward asymmetry

Abstract

This article presents new features of the MCSANC v.1.20 program, a Monte Carlo tool for calculation of the next-to-leading order electroweak and QCD corrections to various Standard Model processes. The extensions concern implementation of Drell--Yan-like processes and include a systematic treatment of the photon-induced contribution in proton--proton collisions and electroweak corrections beyond NLO approximation. There are also technical improvements such as calculation of the forward-backward asymmetry for the neutral current Drell--Yan process. The updated code is suitable for studies of the effects due to EW and QCD radiative corrections to Drell--Yan (and several other) processes at the LHC and for forthcoming high energy proton--proton colliders.