On the next-to-leading order QCD K -factor for t t b b production at the TeVatron

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2012)043zbMATH Open1309.81341arXiv1112.4325MaRDI QIDQ2340643FDOQ2340643

Malgorzata Worek

Publication date: 20 April 2015

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by ongoing experimental analyses, we report on the calculation of next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of top anti-top pairs in association with two hard b-jets at the Fermilab TeVatron. Besides the total cross section and its scale dependence, a few differential distributions applicable for Higgs boson searches at the TeVaron are given. The QCD corrections with respect to leading order are negative and small. For our main setup they amount to 2%, and remain reasonably stable against changes of cuts. This proves that an integrated next-to-leading order K-factor does not necessarily need to be applied in the background estimation for the top anti-top H -> top anti-top bottom anti-bottom signal process. The distributions show similarly small corrections. The shape of kinematic distributions is distorted at most by about 20% in some corners of the phase space. Even though it is not the main purpose of this paper, we also evaluated the forward-backward asymmetry of the top quark at next-to-leading order.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4325

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zbMATH Keywords

Higgs physicsNLO computationsQCDstandard model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Cites Work

• \texttt{OneLOop}: for the evaluation of one-loop scalar functions
• PHEGAS: A phase-space generator for automatic cross-section computation
• Reducing full one-loop amplitudes to scalar integrals at the integrand level
• The dipole formalism for next-to-leading order QCD calculations with massive partons
• HELAC: A package to compute electroweak helicity amplitudes
• Parton distributions for the LHC
• The anti-\(k_t\) jet clustering algorithm
• NLO QCD corrections to \( {\text{t}}\overline{\text{t}} {\text{b}}\overline{\text{b}} \) production at the LHC: 2. Full hadronic results
• NNLO leptonic and hadronic corrections to Bhabha scattering and luminosity monitoring at meson factories

Uses Software

• PHEGAS
• OneLOop
• CutTools
• HELAC
• HELAC-1LOOP

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