The POWHEG-BOX

Abstract

We review the key features of POWHEG, a method for interfacing parton-shower Monte Carlo generators to fixed next-to-leading order QCD computations. We describe a recently introduced framework, the POWHEG-BOX, that allows the automatic POWHEG implementation of any given NLO calculation. We present a few results for Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion and Z + 1 jet production, both processes available in the POWHEG-BOX.

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of "Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory", 25-30 April 2010, Woerlitz, Germany