https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20158502024
Monte Carlo methods for TMD analyses
1 Department of Theoretical Physics, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
2 IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013 Bilbao, Spain
a e-mail: gunar.schnell@desy.de
Published online: 23 January 2015
Monte Carlo simulations are an indispensable tool in experimental high-energy physics. Indeed, many discoveries rely on realistic modeling of background processes. In the field of transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution and fragmentation functions there is a clear lack of a reliable Monte Carlo physics generator that can be used in experimental and phenomenological analyses. The need for such Monte Carlo generators, the status of some solutions and prospects are discussed.
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