Theory in Manchester Bernadette Cogswell, Fedor Bezrukov, Mrinal Dasgupta, Jeff Forshaw, Apostolos Pilaftsis, Mike Seymour Daniele Anderle 7 PhD students
Soft Gluons and More… Mike Seymour
Manchester Christmas meeting This year… Chief Examiner in Physics & Astronomy Senior author of Herwig++ Scientist-in-Charge of MCnetITN Scientist-in-Charge of MCnetITN3 PI for Lancaster-Manchester-Sheffield Consortium Consolidated Grant STFC Review Panel of UK Particle Theory RESIGNED! FINISHED! Mike Seymour Manchester Christmas meeting
Manchester Christmas meeting MCnet School 2018 Mike Seymour Manchester Christmas meeting
MCnet projects Pythia+Vincia Herwig Sherpa MadGraph “Plugin” – Ariadne+HEJ CEDAR – Rivet+Professor +Contur+hepforge+… Glasgow
Manchester Christmas meeting Soft Gluons… Following JRF, MHS and Albrecht Kyrieleis 2006 discovery of super-leading logs in gaps between jets, Υ Q Υ Q0 Δy Δy Mike Seymour Manchester Christmas meeting
Manchester Christmas meeting Soft Gluons… JRF, MHS and Andrzej Siodmok 2012 discovery that the same physics violates factorization in hadron-hadron collisions Mike Seymour Manchester Christmas meeting
Manchester Christmas meeting Soft Gluons… JRF, MHS and René Angeles-Martinez 2015&16 formulation as an evolution in k_t Mike Seymour Manchester Christmas meeting
Manchester Christmas meeting Soft Gluons… JRF, MHS needed new collaborators… Mike Seymour Manchester Christmas meeting
Manchester Christmas meeting Soft Gluons… JRF, MHS needed new collaborators… Mike Seymour Manchester Christmas meeting
Manchester Christmas meeting Soft Gluons… JRF, MHS needed new collaborators… Numerical implementation of (non-probabilistic) Coulomb gluon exchange To arbitrary accuracy in Nc Equivalence with RGE and SCET approaches Rederivation of Banfi-Marchesini-Smye equation (also exact in Nc) Mike Seymour Manchester Christmas meeting
Manchester Christmas meeting …and More Herwig 7.1 released 2017 Automated NLO matching (Powheg or MC@NLO style) multi-jet merging at LO and NLO QCD new model for soft interactions and diffraction automated NLO top decay corrections Ongoing New Herwig physics review paper 2008, 1600 cites; 2001, 3000 cites; 1991, 2200 cites NLO simulation of Higgs + jet -> Kiran NLO simulation of top production -> Baptiste Mike Seymour Manchester Christmas meeting
Manchester Christmas meeting Mike Seymour Manchester Christmas meeting