Parton shower matching and merging

Abstract

With Run-II of the LHC starting its final year of data-taking, high precision theoretical predictions through Monte-Carlo event generators whose uncertainties match that of the recorded data are of highest importance. This talk summarises the progress of the field and highlight a number of recent developments.

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures, contribution to proceedings of "Corfu Summer Institute 2017 'School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity', 2-28 September 2017, Corfu, Greece"