Precise predictions for the associated production of a $W$ boson with a top-antitop quark pair at the LHC

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العنوان: Precise predictions for the associated production of a $W$ boson with a top-antitop quark pair at the LHC
المؤلفون: Buonocore, Luca, Devoto, Simone, Grazzini, Massimiliano, Kallweit, Stefan, Mazzitelli, Javier, Rottoli, Luca, Savoini, Chiara
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
مصطلحات موضوعية: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment
الوصف: The production of a top-antitop quark pair in association with a $W$ boson ($t\bar tW$) is one of the heaviest signatures currently probed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Since the first observation reported in 2015 the corresponding rates have been found to be consistently higher than the Standard Model predictions, which are based on next-to-leading order~(NLO) calculations in the QCD and electroweak (EW) interactions. We present the first next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD computation of $t\bar tW$ production at hadron colliders. The calculation is exact, except for the finite part of the two-loop virtual corrections, which is estimated using two different approaches that lead to consistent results within their uncertainties. We combine the newly computed NNLO QCD corrections with the complete NLO QCD+EW results, thus obtaining the most advanced perturbative prediction available to date for the \ttW inclusive cross section. The tension with the latest ATLAS and CMS results remains at the $1\sigma-2\sigma$ level.
Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Minor changes, version published on PRL
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.231901
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16311
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2306.16311
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.231901