Inclusive Cross Sections in ME+PS Merging

Abstract

We discuss an extension of matrix element plus parton shower merging at leading and next-to-leading order. The algorithm does preserve inclusive cross sections at the respective input order. This constraint avoids potentially large logarithmic contributions, which would require approximate (N)NLO contributions to cancel against.

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of DIS 2013