A QED Shower Including the Next-to-leading Logarithm Correction in e+e- Annihilation

TL;DR

This paper introduces NLL-QEDPS, a Monte Carlo event generator for e+e- annihilation that incorporates next-to-leading logarithm corrections in QED showers, improving accuracy over previous models.

Contribution

The paper develops a new QED shower model including next-to-leading logarithm corrections, extending beyond the leading approximation in Monte Carlo event generation.

Findings

Achieves 0.04% accuracy in virtual photon/Z-boson mass squared q^2

Systematically includes alpha^m log^n(S/m_e^2) contributions

Improves precision over previous leading-log models

Abstract

We develop an event generator, NLL-QEDPS, based on the QED shower including the next-to-leading logarithm correction in the e^+e^- annihilation. The shower model is the Monte Carlo technique to solve the renormalization group equation so that they can calculate contributions of alpha^m log^n(S/m_e^2) for any m and n systematically. Here alpha is the QED coupling, m_e is the mass of electron and S is the square of the total energy in the e^+e^- system. While the previous QEDPS is limited to the leading logarithm approximation which includes only contributions of (alpha log(S/m_e^2))^n, the model developed here contains terms of alpha(alpha log(S/m_e^2))^n, the the next-to-leading logarithm correction. The shower model is formulated for the initial radiation in the e^+e^- annihilation. The generator based on it gives us events with q^2, which is a virtual mass squared of the virtual photon and/or Z-boson, in accuracy of 0.04%, except for small q^2/S.