Modeling uncertainties of multilepton signatures
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1841641
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1865595
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0010102
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 105 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Hadron-hadron interactions; Perturbative QCD; Quark & gluon jets; Top quark; W & Z bosons; Monte Carlo methods
Citation Formats
Bevilacqua, G., Bi, H. Y., Febres Cordero, F., Hartanto, H. B., Kraus, M., Nasufi, J., Reina, L., and Worek, M. Modeling uncertainties of t t ¯ W ± multilepton signatures. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.014018.
Bevilacqua, G., Bi, H. Y., Febres Cordero, F., Hartanto, H. B., Kraus, M., Nasufi, J., Reina, L., & Worek, M. Modeling uncertainties of t t ¯ W ± multilepton signatures. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.014018
Bevilacqua, G., Bi, H. Y., Febres Cordero, F., Hartanto, H. B., Kraus, M., Nasufi, J., Reina, L., and Worek, M. Fri .
"Modeling uncertainties of t t ¯ W ± multilepton signatures". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.014018.
@article{osti_1841641,
title = {Modeling uncertainties of t t ¯ W ± multilepton signatures},
author = {Bevilacqua, G. and Bi, H. Y. and Febres Cordero, F. and Hartanto, H. B. and Kraus, M. and Nasufi, J. and Reina, L. and Worek, M.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.105.014018},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 1,
volume = 105,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2022},
month = {Fri Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2022}
}
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.014018
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