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A new way of reducing negative weights in MC@NLO

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arxiv 2310.04160 v1 pith:UDPYE4I4 submitted 2023-10-06 hep-ph

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We introduce a new technique, that we dub Born spreading, aimed at reducing the number of negative-weight $\mathbb S$ events in the MC@NLO matching of NLO calculations with parton-shower simulations. We show that such a technique, based on a re-distribution of Born matrix elements in the radiative phase space, achieves a sizeable reduction of negative-weight events at little computational cost. The method does not induce any biases in physical distributions.

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