Full NLO QCD corrections to off-shell tt¯bb¯ production

Ansgar Denner (Universität Würzburg, Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Emil-Hilb-Weg 22, 97074 Würzburg, Germany) ; Jean-Nicolas Lang (Universität Zürich, Physik-Institut, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland) ; Mathieu Pellen (University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, 19 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom)

In this article, we report on the computation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to ppμν¯μe+νeb¯bb¯b at the LHC, which is an irreducible background to pptt¯H(bb¯). This is the first time that a full NLO computation for a 28 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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Published on:
15 September 2021
Publisher:
APS
Published in:
Physical Review D , Volume 104 (2021)
Issue 5
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.056018
arXiv:
2008.00918
Copyrights:
Published by the American Physical Society
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CC-BY-4.0

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