NLO matching for $t\overline{t}b\overline{b}$ production with massive b -quarks

Jezo, Tomas

doi:10.22323/1.316.0089

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NLO matching for $t\overline{t}b\overline{b}$ production with massive b -quarks

Jezo, Tomas (2018). NLO matching for $t\overline{t}b\overline{b}$ production with massive b -quarks. In: XXVI International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, Kobe, Japan, 16 April 2018 - 20 April 2018.

Abstract

Measurements of tt¯H production in the H→bb¯ channel depend in a critical way on the theoretical uncertainty associated with the irreducible QCD tt¯+b-jet background. We introduce a new pp→tt¯bb¯ POWHEG generator in the 4F scheme based on POWHEG-BOX-RES and on OpenLoops for fast evaluation of the scattering amplitudes. We present predictions and uncertainties for tt¯+b-jet observables at the 13 TeV LHC. We also consider theoretical uncertainties related to the POWHEG matching method and to the parton shower (PS) modelling, with emphasis on g→bb¯ splittings. In general, matching and shower uncertainties turn out to be remarkably small. This is confirmed by a consistent comparison against SHERPA+OpenLoops.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Speech), not_refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:	07 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute
Dewey Decimal Classification:	530 Physics
Language:	English
Event End Date:	20 April 2018
Deposited On:	20 Dec 2018 08:57
Last Modified:	24 Sep 2019 23:58
Publisher:	SISSA
Series Name:	PoS - Proceedings of Science
ISSN:	1824-8039
OA Status:	Gold
Free access at:	Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:	https://doi.org/10.22323/1.316.0089