Hadronic top-quark pair-production with one jet and parton showering

2011/10/31 by Simone Alioli, Sven-Olaf Moch, Peter Uwer · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep01(2012)137

38 pages, 14 figures, 6 tables. Few references and comments added. Version accepted for publication

arxiv created 2012/01/24 · arxiv updated 2015/05/29

Abstract

We present a calculation of heavy-flavor production in hadronic collisions in association with one jet matched to parton shower Monte Carlo programs at next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. Top-quark decays are included and spin correlations in the decay products are taken into account. The calculation builds on existing results for the radiative corrections to heavy-quark plus one jet production and uses the POWHEG BOX for the interface to the parton shower programs PYTHIA or HERWIG. A broad phenomenological study for the Large Hadron Collider and the Tevatron is presented. In particular we study---as one important sample application---the impact of the parton shower on the top-quark charge asymmetry.

Cited by

• Search for the nonresonant production of a pair of additional Higgs bosons in the Type-X two-Higgs-doublet model in proton-proton collisions at √(s) = 13 TeV
• Search for soft unclustered energy patterns produced in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at √(s) = 13 TeV