3 research outputs found
Higgs boson production in association with top quarks in the POWHEG BOX
We present results from the analytic calculation of top+antitop+Higgs
hadronic production at Next-to-Leading Order in QCD interfaced with
parton-shower Monte Carlo event generators in the POWHEG BOX framework. We
consider kinematic distributions of the top quark and Higgs boson at the 8 TeV
Large Hadron Collider and study the theoretical uncertainties due to specific
choices of renormalization/factorization scales and parton-showering
algorithms, namely PYTHIA and HERWIG. The importance of spin-correlations in
the production and decay stages of a top/antitop quark is discussed on the
example of kinematic distributions of leptons originating from the top/antitop
decays. The corresponding code is now part of the public release of the POWHEG
BOX.Comment: 15 pp, 14 figure
Next-to-leading order predictions for Z gamma+jet and Z gamma gamma final states at the LHC
We present next-to-leading order predictions for final states containing
leptons produced through the decay of a Z boson in association with either a
photon and a jet, or a pair of photons. The effect of photon radiation from the
final state leptons is included and we also allow for contributions arising
from fragmentation processes. Phenomenological studies are presented for the
LHC in the case of final states containing charged leptons and in the case of
neutrinos. We also use the procedure introduced by Stewart and Tackmann to
provide a reliable estimate of the scale uncertainty inherent in our
theoretical calculations of jet-binned Z gamma cross sections. These
computations have been implemented in the public code MCFM.Comment: 30 pages, 10 figure