We present heavy-flavor production in association with one jet in hadronic collisions matched to parton shower Monte Carlo predictions at next-to-leading order QCD with account of top-quark decays and spin correlations. We use the POWHEGBOX for the interface to the parton shower programs PYTHIA or HERWIG. Phenomenological studies for the LHC and the Tevatron are presented with particular emphasis on the inclusion of spin-correlation effects in top decay and the impact of the parton shower on the top-quark charge asymmetries. As a novel application of the present calculation the measurement of the top-quark mass is discussed.
@article{arxiv.1206.1750,
title = {Top-quark pair-production with one jet and parton showering at hadron colliders},
author = {Simone Alioli and Juan Fuster and Adrian Irles and Sven-Olaf Moch and Peter Uwer and Marcel Vos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.1750},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
4 pages latex, 6 figures, Procs. of XX International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS 2012)