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Title: Modeling uncertainties of t t ¯ W ± multilepton signatures

Journal Article · · Physical Review D

In light of recent discrepancies between the modeling of tt¯W± signatures and measurements reported by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experimental collaborations, we investigate in detail theoretical uncertainties for multi-lepton signatures. Here, we compare results from the state-of-the-art full off-shell calculation and its Narrow Width Approximation to results obtained from the on-shell tt¯W± calculation, with approximate spin-correlations in top-quark and W decays, matched to parton showers. In the former case double-, single-, and non-resonant contributions together with interference effects are taken into account, while the latter two cases are only based on the double resonant top-quark contributions. The comparison is performed for the LHC at √s=13 TeV for which we study separately the multi-lepton signatures as predicted from the dominant NLO contributions at the perturbative orders O($$α$$$^{3}_{s}$$α6) and O(αsα8). Furthermore, we combine both contributions and propose a simple way to approximately incorporate the full off-shell effects in the NLO computation of on-shell pp → tt¯W± matched to parton showers.

Research Organization:
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0010102
OSTI ID:
1841641
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1865595
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Vol. 105 Journal Issue: 1; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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