Hadroproduction of four top quarks in the powheg box
Abstract
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 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.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); German Research Foundation (DFG)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1872665
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1980100
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0010102; 396021762—TRR 257; 273811115—SFB 1225
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 105 Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Particle decays; particle production; perturbative QCD; quantum chromodynamics; quark & gluon jets
Citation Formats
Ježo, Tomáš, and Kraus, Manfred. Hadroproduction of four top quarks in the powheg box. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.114024.
Ježo, Tomáš, & Kraus, Manfred. Hadroproduction of four top quarks in the powheg box. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.114024
Ježo, Tomáš, and Kraus, Manfred. Thu .
"Hadroproduction of four top quarks in the powheg box". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.114024.
@article{osti_1872665,
title = {Hadroproduction of four top quarks in the powheg box},
author = {Ježo, Tomáš and Kraus, Manfred},
abstractNote = {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(αs5) 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.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.105.114024},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 11,
volume = 105,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Thu Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.114024
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