Resonance-aware electroweak Sudakov reweighting for multijet-merged predictions

@misc{jerala2026resonanceaware,
  title = {{Resonance-aware electroweak Sudakov reweighting for multijet-merged predictions}},
  author = {Lenart Jerala and Rikkert Frederix and Miha Muškinja and Davide Pagani and Timea Vitos and Marco Zaro},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.08950},
  eprint = {2610.08950},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08950},
}

TY  - UNPB
TI  - Resonance-aware electroweak Sudakov reweighting for multijet-merged predictions
AU  - Lenart Jerala
AU  - Rikkert Frederix
AU  - Miha Muškinja
AU  - Davide Pagani
AU  - Timea Vitos
AU  - Marco Zaro
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/06
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.08950
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08950
AB  - We present a resonance-aware extension of electroweak Sudakov-logarithm reweighting in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO for NLO QCD-matched and FxFx multijet-merged event samples. The method identifies the hard production process underlying each event and evaluates its electroweak Sudakov correction while accounting for the spin correlations between unstable particles and their decay products. Photonic logarithms are removed from the virtual weight to avoid overlap with QED shower evolution. We validate the method in FxFx-merged Z+jets production and fully leptonic W^+W^- production. The reweighting yields the expected growing weak suppression in high-energy tails and is stable under variations of the clustering and merging parameters. In W^+W^- production, the density-matrix and spin-summed prescriptions are statistically compatible for the observables studied, indicating only a small additional helicity dependence of the Sudakov correction in this channel. The method provides a practical virtual weak-Sudakov approximation for matched and merged simulations, but does not constitute an exact NLO electroweak calculation.
ER  -