regardless of the nature of the final state). Clearly, the contributions due to branchings of Born-level final-state strongly-interacting particles will be given by short-distance cross sections analogous to those of eqs. (\[Ithreedef2\]) and (\[Itwodef3\]) (see e.g. sect. 3 of ref. [@Frixione:2005vw]). The computation of such contributions is beyond the scope of the present work, and we postpone it to a future publication.

We conclude this section by stressing that, due to the form of the shower variables used by , the soft limit of the sum of the MC subtraction terms coincides with that of the real-emission matrix elements, which was not the case for . This implies that here we can set ${\cal G}\equiv 1$, where ${\cal G}$ is the function introduced in sect. A.5 of ref. [@Frixione:2002ik] – we refer the reader to that paper for a discussion on this issue.

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In this section, we present sample results relevant to $W^+$ production in $pp$ collisions at . Our aim is not that of performing a phenomenological study, but rather that of presenting a few control plots that show that the matching of the NLO results for single vector boson production with  according to the MC@NLO formalism 