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Title: 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 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.

Authors:
ORCiD logo; ORCiD logo
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.
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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}
}

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