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photo Rikkert Frederix

Rikkert Frederix

Senior lecturer

photo Rikkert Frederix

W and Z/γ* boson production in association with a bottom-antibottom pair

Author

  • Rikkert Frederix
  • Stefano Frixione
  • Valentin Hirschi
  • Fabio Maltoni
  • Roberto Pittau
  • Paolo Torrielli

Summary, in English

We present a study of lνbb and l++l-bb production at hadron colliders. Our results, accurate to the next-to-leading order in QCD, are based on automatic matrix-element calculations performed byMadLoop andMadFKS, and are given at both the parton level, and after the matching with the Herwig event generator, achieved with aMC@NLO. We retain the complete dependence on the bottom-quark mass, and include exactly all spin correlations of final-state leptons. We discuss the cases of several observables at the LHC which highlight the importance of accurate simulations.

Publishing year

2011-09-29

Language

English

Publication/Series

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volume

2011

Issue

9

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • QCD Phenomenology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1029-8479