In this article, we report on the computation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to at the LHC, which is an irreducible background to . This is the first time that a full NLO computation for a process with 6 external strongly interacting partons is made public. No approximations are used, and all off-shell and interference effects are taken into account. Cross sections and differential distributions from the full computation are compared to results obtained by using a double-pole approximation for the top quarks. The difference between the full calculation and the one using the double-pole approximation is in general below 5% but can reach 10% in some regions of phase space.
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