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photo Rikkert Frederix

Rikkert Frederix

Senior lecturer

photo Rikkert Frederix

Off-shell single-top production at NLO matched to parton showers

Author

  • R. Frederix
  • S. Frixione
  • A. S. Papanastasiou
  • S. Prestel
  • P. Torrielli

Summary, in English

Abstract: We study the hadroproduction of a W b pair in association with a light jet, focusing on the dominant t-channel contribution and including exactly at the matrix-element level all non-resonant and off-shell effects induced by the finite top-quark width. Our simulations are accurate to the next-to-leading order in QCD, and are matched to the Herwig6 and Pythia8 parton showers through the MC@NLO method. We present phenomenological results relevant to the 8 TeV LHC, and carry out a thorough comparison to the case of on-shell t-channel single-top production. We formulate our approach so that it can be applied to the general case of matrix elements that feature coloured intermediate resonances and are matched to parton showers.

Publishing year

2016-06-01

Language

English

Publication/Series

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volume

2016

Issue

6

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • NLO Computations
  • QCD Phenomenology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1029-8479