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Top-quark pair-production and decay at high precision

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Gao, J 
Papanastasiou, AS 

Abstract

We present a fully differential and high-precision calculation of top-quark pair-production and decay at the LHC, providing predictions for observables constructed from top-quark leptonic and b-flavored jet final states. The calculation is implemented in a parton-level Monte Carlo and includes an approximation to the next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) corrections to the production and, for the first time, the exact NNLO corrections to the decay subprocesses. The corrections beyond NLO are sizable, and including them is crucial for an accurate description of the cross section constrained by experimental phase-space restrictions. We compare our predictions to published ATLAS and CMS measurements at the LHC, finding improved agreement compared with lower orders in the perturbative expansion.

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Keywords

hep-ph, hep-ph, hep-ex

Journal Title

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

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Journal ISSN

2470-0010
2470-0029

Volume Title

96

Publisher

American Physical Society
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/L002760/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/K004883/1)
The work of J. G. is sponsored by the Shanghai Pujiang Program. The work of A. P. is supported by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (Grant No. ST/L002760/1).