Next-to-leading order QCD predictions for top-quark pair production with up to two jets merged with a parton shower

We present differential cross sections for the production of top-quark pairs in conjunction with up to two jets, computed at next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD and consistently merged with a parton shower in the Sherpa+OpenLoops framework. Top quark decays including spin correlation effects a...

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Main Authors: Stefan Höche, Frank Krauss, Philipp Maierhöfer, Stefano Pozzorini, Marek Schönherr, Frank Siegert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-09-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269315004827