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We present a calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to slepton pair production in association with a jet at the LHC together with their implementation in the POWHEG BOX. For the simulation of parton-shower effects and the decays of the sleptons we employ the multi-purpose Monte-Carlo program PYTHIA. We discuss the impact of next-to-leading order QCD corrections on experimentally accessible distributions and illustrate how the parton shower can modify observables that are sensitive to QCD radiation effects. Having full control on the hard jet in the process, we provide precise predictions also for monojet analyses.
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Jäger, B., von Manteuffel, A. & Thier, S. Slepton pair production in association with a jet: NLO-QCD corrections and parton-shower effects. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 41 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2015)041
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