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Title: Hadroproduction of four top quarks in the powheg box

Journal Article · · Physical Review D

We present a new Monte Carlo event generator for the hadronic production of four top quarks in the powheg box framework. Besides the dominant next-to-leading order QCD corrections at O ( α s 5 ) we also include all subleading electroweak productions channels at leading-order accuracy. We validate our theoretical predictions by comparing to parton-shower matched predictions obtained within the mc@nlo framework for stable top quarks. Furthermore, we investigate in detail the various sources of theoretical uncertainties. Finally, we investigate a single lepton plus jets signature to study for the first time the impact of the electroweak production modes as well as spin-correlation effects at the fiducial level.

Research Organization:
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); German Research Foundation (DFG)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0010102; 396021762—TRR 257; 273811115—SFB 1225
OSTI ID:
1872665
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1980100
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Vol. 105 Journal Issue: 11; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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