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Beyond the Narrow-Width Limit for Off-Shell and Boosted Differential Top Quark Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-01-11 v1

Abstract

The standard approaches for describing top quark production and its decay dynamics are currently mostly either based on the narrow-width (NW) limit or on off-shell fixed-order calculations. In this article we present a factorised approach for boosted top quarks that combines the properties of the NW limit and off-shell computations accounting for the dominant off-shell effects in an expansion in mt/Qm_t/Q with the hard scattering scale QQ. We discuss the key ideas of our approach and show some preliminary results at tree-level.

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@article{arxiv.2401.05035,
  title  = {Beyond the Narrow-Width Limit for Off-Shell and Boosted Differential Top Quark Decays},
  author = {André H. Hoang and Simon Plätzer and Christoph Regner and Ines Ruffa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.05035},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Talk at the 16th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (Top2023), 24-29 September 2023

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