Code review comment for lp:~maddevelopers/mg5amcnlo/3.0.1

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Olivier Mattelaer (olivier-mattelaer) wrote :

On that topic,

Would not be a good idea to put somewhere the plot corresponding to NLO_X LO_Y?
This could be very usefull to know what is computed and what is included by the code.
(what about for 3.0.2?)

Cheers,

Olivier

> On 5 Oct 2018, at 10:48, Rikkert Frederix <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> There is another issue that should be fixed. In particular, when requiring e.g.,
>
> p p > j j QED=0 QCD=4 [QED]
>
> the code also includes QCD corrections (i.e., NLO_1), since at the squared order level, they are allowed. To remove them, one needs to set QCD=2.
>
> In my opinion, the QED=0 and QCD=4 should be used to define which LO contributions should be included, and the ones between the square brackets to determine if one should include QCD and/or QED corrections on top of the Born contributions. Hence,
>
> p p > j j QED=0 QCD=4 [QED]
> and
> p p > j j QED=0 QCD=2 [QED]
>
> should lead to exactly the same results.
>
> Who knows how to fix this?
>
> Cheers,
> Rikkert
>
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