KrkNLO matching for colour-singlet processes
Pratixan Sarmah, Andrzej Siódmok, James Whitehead · Journal of High Energy Physics · 2025
A bstract Matched calculations combining perturbative QCD with parton showers are an indispensable tool for LHC physics. Two methods for NLO matching are in widespread use: M c @N lo and P owheg . We describe an alternative, KrkNLO, reformulated to be easily applicable to any colour-singlet process. The primary distinguishing characteristic of KrkNLO is its use of an alternative factorisation scheme, the ‘Krk’ scheme, to achieve NLO accuracy. We describe the general implementation of KrkNLO in Herwig 7, using diphoton production as a test process. We systematically compare its predictions to those produced by M c @N lo with several different choices of shower scale, both truncated to one-emission and with the shower running to completion, and to A tlas data from LHC Run 2.