t t ¯ b b ¯ $$ t\overline{t}b\overline{b} $$ at NLO precision in a variable flavor number scheme

Autor: Lars Ferencz, Stefan Höche, Judith Katzy, Frank Siegert
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2024, Iss 7, Pp 1-29 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2024)026
Popis: Abstract Top-quark pair production in association with two b-jets is computed at next-to-leading order QCD precision, including effects of the b-quark mass, and matched to a t t ¯ $$ t\overline{t} $$ +jets simulation in a variable flavor number scheme. The Monte Carlo realization of this method, called fusing, consistently embeds the four-flavor calculation in a particle-level event generator. As a first phenomenological application, we present observables relevant to the data-driven estimation of irreducible backgrounds to t t ¯ H $$ t\overline{t}H $$ -production.
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