  This note presents a study of matching and merging schemes and weak showering
at the LHC as applied to the production of electroweak bosons in association
with jets. These advanced theoretical tools are seen to provide a good
description of event shapes in the central region when compared to measurements
performed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at a centre-of-mass energy of 7
TeV. Matching and merging schemes also provide a superior description of
forward $Z+$jets production. The study constitutes a test of matching and
merging schemes in a novel region of phase space and can be considered as a
validation of the universality of these techniques. Finally, it was determined
that current measurements of electroweak physics at LHCb do not yet fully probe
the effect of weak showers.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology