The general purpose event generators, Pythia, Herwig and Sherpa, work well for most processes at the LHC, but there is still room for improvement. The development of models is often done outside the three main programs, although the resulting code typically is interfaced to plug in to one or more of them. A special class of such programs involves parton shower models where the standard collinear evolution is amended by so-called small-x resummation. Two such programs are explicitly included in this project:
Besides developing these two programs, the Plugin project will act as an interface to theorists in the wider community working on special models for parts of the event generating chain. The project is led by Leif Lonnblad in Lund, with Jeppe Andersen and Jennifer Smillie of the Durham team, with ESRs in Lund and Durham.
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