Spacetime Colour Reconnection in Herwig 7

Abstract

We present a model for generating spacetime coordinates in the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig 7, and perform colour reconnection by minimizing a boost-invariant distance measure of the system. We compare the model to a series of soft physics observables. We find reasonable agreement with the data, suggesting that $pp$-collider colour reconnection may be able to be applied in larger systems.

Comments: 14 pages, 12 figures, updated to final accepted version (EPJ C)