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We consider the production of a single Z or W boson in association with jets at the LHC. We compute the corresponding cross sections by matching NLO QCD predictions with the Herwig++ and Pythia8 parton showers, and by merging all of the underlying matrix elements with up to two light partons at the Born level. We compare our results with several 7-TeV measurements by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, and overall we find a good agreement between theory and data.
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Frederix, R., Frixione, S., Papaefstathiou, A. et al. A study of multi-jet production in association with an electroweak vector boson. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 131 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2016)131
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