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Electroweak and QCD corrections to top-pair hadroproduction in association with heavy bosons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-04-15 v1

Abstract

We compute the contribution of order αS2α2\alpha_S^2\alpha^2 to the cross section of a top-antitop pair in association with at least one heavy Standard Model boson -- ZZ, W±W^\pm, and Higgs -- by including all effects of QCD, QED, and weak origin and by working in the automated MadGraph5_aMC@NLO framework. This next-to-leading order contribution is then combined with that of order αS3α\alpha_S^3\alpha, and with the two dominant lowest-order ones, αS2α\alpha_S^2\alpha and αSα2\alpha_S\alpha^2, to obtain phenomenological results relevant to a 8, 13, and 100~TeV pppp collider.

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@article{arxiv.1504.03446,
  title  = {Electroweak and QCD corrections to top-pair hadroproduction in association with heavy bosons},
  author = {S. Frixione and V. Hirschi and D. Pagani and H. -S. Shao and M. Zaro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.03446},
  year   = {2015}
}

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27 pages, 8 figures