Multiparton Interaction Models and Parton Shower Studies
Popular Abstract in English Experiments, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN, Switzerland, collide particles together at high energies, in the hope of probing the fundamental constituents and forces of nature. On the theoretical side, the Standard Model (SM) is currently the best description we have. It is a theory that encompasses the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces, although This thesis involves phenomenological models for describing high energy particle collisions. One class of these models, multiparton interactions (MPI), deals with the fact that when colliding two hadrons, it is possible for more than one pair of their constituents to interact. The other deals with parton showers, which are used to fill enhanced regions of phase space and give fully exclusive final