W+n-jet predictions at NLO matched with a parton shower

Abstract

The MC@NLO method as implemented in the Sherpa MC generator is presented using the production of W-bosons in conjunction with up to three jets as an example. Corresponding results computed at next-to leading order in QCD and including parton shower corrections are compared to recent experimental data from the Large Hadron Collider.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the proceedings of DIS 2012