Abstract
In view of the persisting tension between theoretical predictions and the LHC data for the pp → \( t\overline{t}W \)± production process, we present the state-of-the-art full off-shell NLO QCD result for pp → \( t\overline{t}W \)+j + X. We concentrate on the multi-lepton decay channel at the LHC with \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV. In our calculation off-shell top quarks and gauge bosons are described by Breit-Wigner propagators, furthermore, double-, single- as well as non-resonant top-quark contributions along with all interference effects are consistently incorporated at the matrix element level. We present results for both integrated and differential fiducial cross sections for various renormalisation and factorisation scale settings and different PDF sets. With a fairly inclusive choice of cuts and regardless of the scale and PDF choice, non-flat differential \( \mathcal{K} \)-factors are obtained for many observables that we have examined. Since from an experimental point of view, both processes pp → \( t\overline{t}W \)±j + X and pp → \( t\overline{t}W \)± + X consist of similar final states we investigate the effect of additional jet activity on the integrated and differential fiducial cross sections. For this purpose, the normalised differential distributions for pp → e+νeμ−\( \overline{\nu} \)μτ+ντ\( b\overline{b} \)j + X and pp → e+νeμ−\( \overline{\nu} \)μτ+ντ\( b\overline{b} \) + X are compared. The theoretical results for the latter process are also recalculated.
Article PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Avoid common mistakes on your manuscript.
References
F. Maltoni, M.L. Mangano, I. Tsinikos and M. Zaro, Top-quark charge asymmetry and polarization in \( t\overline{t}W \)± production at the LHC, Phys. Lett. B 736 (2014) 252 [arXiv:1406.3262] [INSPIRE].
G. Bevilacqua et al., NLO QCD corrections to off-shell \( t\overline{t}W \)± production at the LHC: correlations and asymmetries, Eur. Phys. J. C 81 (2021) 675 [arXiv:2012.01363] [INSPIRE].
P. Ferrario and G. Rodrigo, Constraining heavy colored resonances from top-antitop quark events, Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) 051701 [arXiv:0906.5541] [INSPIRE].
P.H. Frampton, J. Shu and K. Wang, Axigluon as Possible Explanation for \( p\overline{p} \) → \( t\overline{t} \) Forward-Backward Asymmetry, Phys. Lett. B 683 (2010) 294 [arXiv:0911.2955] [INSPIRE].
ATLAS collaboration, Search for supersymmetry at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV in final states with jets and two same-sign leptons or three leptons with the ATLAS detector, Eur. Phys. J. C 76 (2016) 259 [arXiv:1602.09058] [INSPIRE].
CMS collaboration, Search for new physics in same-sign dilepton events in proton-proton collisions at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV, Eur. Phys. J. C 76 (2016) 439 [arXiv:1605.03171] [INSPIRE].
CMS collaboration, Search for physics beyond the standard model in events with two leptons of same sign, missing transverse momentum, and jets in proton-proton collisions at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV, Eur. Phys. J. C 77 (2017) 578 [arXiv:1704.07323] [INSPIRE].
ATLAS collaboration, Search for supersymmetry in final states with two same-sign or three leptons and jets using 36 fb−1 of \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV pp collision data with the ATLAS detector, JHEP 09 (2017) 084 [Erratum ibid. 08 (2019) 121] [arXiv:1706.03731] [INSPIRE].
CMS collaboration, Search for supersymmetry in events with at least three electrons or muons, jets, and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV, JHEP 02 (2018) 067 [arXiv:1710.09154] [INSPIRE].
ATLAS collaboration, Search for squarks and gluinos in final states with same-sign leptons and jets using 139 fb−1 of data collected with the ATLAS detector, JHEP 06 (2020) 046 [arXiv:1909.08457] [INSPIRE].
CMS collaboration, Search for physics beyond the standard model in events with jets and two same-sign or at least three charged leptons in proton-proton collisions at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV, Eur. Phys. J. C 80 (2020) 752 [arXiv:2001.10086] [INSPIRE].
R.M. Barnett, J.F. Gunion and H.E. Haber, Discovering supersymmetry with like sign dileptons, Phys. Lett. B 315 (1993) 349 [hep-ph/9306204] [INSPIRE].
M. Guchait and D.P. Roy, Like sign dilepton signature for gluino production at CERN LHC including top quark and Higgs boson effects, Phys. Rev. D 52 (1995) 133 [hep-ph/9412329] [INSPIRE].
H. Baer, C.-H. Chen, F. Paige and X. Tata, Signals for minimal supergravity at the CERN large hadron collider. 2: Multi-lepton channels, Phys. Rev. D 53 (1996) 6241 [hep-ph/9512383] [INSPIRE].
J. Maalampi and N. Romanenko, Single production of doubly charged Higgs bosons at hadron colliders, Phys. Lett. B 532 (2002) 202 [hep-ph/0201196] [INSPIRE].
H.K. Dreiner, S. Grab, M. Kramer and M.K. Trenkel, Supersymmetric NLO QCD corrections to resonant slepton production and signals at the Tevatron and the CERN LHC, Phys. Rev. D 75 (2007) 035003 [hep-ph/0611195] [INSPIRE].
F. del Aguila, J.A. Aguilar-Saavedra and R. Miquel, Constraints on top couplings in models with exotic quarks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82 (1999) 1628 [hep-ph/9808400] [INSPIRE].
F. del Aguila, M. Perez-Victoria and J. Santiago, Effective description of quark mixing, Phys. Lett. B 492 (2000) 98 [hep-ph/0007160] [INSPIRE].
F. del Aguila, M. Perez-Victoria and J. Santiago, Observable contributions of new exotic quarks to quark mixing, JHEP 09 (2000) 011 [hep-ph/0007316] [INSPIRE].
J.A. Aguilar-Saavedra, Mixing with vector-like quarks: constraints and expectations, EPJ Web Conf. 60 (2013) 16012 [arXiv:1306.4432] [INSPIRE].
H.-C. Cheng, K.T. Matchev and M. Schmaltz, Bosonic supersymmetry? Getting fooled at the CERN LHC, Phys. Rev. D 66 (2002) 056006 [hep-ph/0205314] [INSPIRE].
R. Contino and G. Servant, Discovering the top partners at the LHC using same-sign dilepton final states, JHEP 06 (2008) 026 [arXiv:0801.1679] [INSPIRE].
A. De Simone, O. Matsedonskyi, R. Rattazzi and A. Wulzer, A First Top Partner Hunter’s Guide, JHEP 04 (2013) 004 [arXiv:1211.5663] [INSPIRE].
S. von Buddenbrock et al., Phenomenological signatures of additional scalar bosons at the LHC, Eur. Phys. J. C 76 (2016) 580 [arXiv:1606.01674] [INSPIRE].
S. von Buddenbrock et al., Multi-lepton signatures of additional scalar bosons beyond the Standard Model at the LHC, J. Phys. G 45 (2018) 115003 [arXiv:1711.07874] [INSPIRE].
S. von Buddenbrock et al., Constraints on a 2HDM with a singlet scalar and implications in the search for heavy bosons at the LHC, J. Phys. G 46 (2019) 115001 [arXiv:1809.06344] [INSPIRE].
S. Buddenbrock et al., The emergence of multi-lepton anomalies at the LHC and their compatibility with new physics at the EW scale, JHEP 10 (2019) 157 [arXiv:1901.05300] [INSPIRE].
F.M.L. Almeida Jr. et al., Same sign dileptons as a signature for heavy Majorana neutrinos in hadron hadron collisions, Phys. Lett. B 400 (1997) 331 [hep-ph/9703441] [INSPIRE].
Y. Bai and Z. Han, Top-antitop and Top-top Resonances in the Dilepton Channel at the CERN LHC, JHEP 04 (2009) 056 [arXiv:0809.4487] [INSPIRE].
E.L. Berger et al., Top Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry and Same-Sign Top Quark Pairs, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (2011) 201801 [arXiv:1101.5625] [INSPIRE].
ATLAS collaboration, Observation of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair at the LHC with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Lett. B 784 (2018) 173 [arXiv:1806.00425] [INSPIRE].
CMS collaboration, Observation of \( t\overline{t}H \) production, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 (2018) 231801 [arXiv:1804.02610] [INSPIRE].
ATLAS collaboration, Probing the CP nature of the top-Higgs Yukawa coupling in \( t\overline{t}H \) and tH events with H → \( b\overline{b} \) decays using the ATLAS detector at the LHC, arXiv:2303.05974 [INSPIRE].
CMS collaboration, Measurements of \( t\overline{t}H \) Production and the CP Structure of the Yukawa Interaction between the Higgs Boson and Top Quark in the Diphoton Decay Channel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125 (2020) 061801 [arXiv:2003.10866] [INSPIRE].
ATLAS collaboration, Observation of four-top-quark production in the multilepton final state with the ATLAS detector, Eur. Phys. J. C 83 (2023) 496 [arXiv:2303.15061] [INSPIRE].
CMS collaboration, Observation of four top quark production in proton-proton collisions at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV, CMS-PAS-TOP-22-013 (2023).
ATLAS collaboration, Analysis of \( t\overline{t}H \) and \( t\overline{t}W \) production in multilepton final states with the ATLAS detector, ATLAS-CONF-2019-045 (2019).
CMS collaboration, Observation of top quark pairs produced in association with a vector boson in pp collisions at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 8 TeV, JHEP 01 (2016) 096 [arXiv:1510.01131] [INSPIRE].
CMS collaboration, Measurement of the cross section for top quark pair production in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV, JHEP 08 (2018) 011 [arXiv:1711.02547] [INSPIRE].
CMS collaboration, Measurement of the cross section of top quark-antiquark pair production in association with a W boson in proton-proton collisions at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV, JHEP 07 (2023) 219 [arXiv:2208.06485] [INSPIRE].
ATLAS collaboration, Measurement of the \( t\overline{t}W \) and \( t\overline{t}Z \) production cross sections in pp collisions at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector, JHEP 11 (2015) 172 [arXiv:1509.05276] [INSPIRE].
ATLAS collaboration, Measurement of the \( t\overline{t}Z \) and \( t\overline{t}W \) production cross sections in multilepton final states using 3.2 fb−1 of pp collisions at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Eur. Phys. J. C 77 (2017) 40 [arXiv:1609.01599] [INSPIRE].
ATLAS collaboration, Measurement of the \( t\overline{t}Z \) and \( t\overline{t}W \) cross sections in proton-proton collisions at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. D 99 (2019) 072009 [arXiv:1901.03584] [INSPIRE].
ATLAS collaboration, Measurement of the total and differential cross-sections of \( t\overline{t}W \) production in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, ATLAS-CONF-2023-019 (2023).
G. Bevilacqua et al., The simplest of them all: \( t\overline{t}W \)± at NLO accuracy in QCD, JHEP 08 (2020) 043 [arXiv:2005.09427] [INSPIRE].
R. Frederix and I. Tsinikos, On improving NLO merging for \( t\overline{t}W \) production, JHEP 11 (2021) 029 [arXiv:2108.07826] [INSPIRE].
ATLAS collaboration, Search for leptonic charge asymmetry in \( t\overline{t}W \) production in final states with three leptons at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV, JHEP 07 (2023) 033 [arXiv:2301.04245] [INSPIRE].
ATLAS collaboration, Probing the quantum interference between singly and doubly resonant top-quark production in pp collisions at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 (2018) 152002 [arXiv:1806.04667] [INSPIRE].
ATLAS collaboration, Studies of \( t\overline{t} \)/tW interference effects in \( b\overline{b} \)ℓ+ℓ−′\( \nu \overline{\nu} \)′ final states with Powheg and MG5_aMC@NLO setups, ATL-PHYS-PUB-2021-042, (2021).
V. Hirschi et al., Automation of one-loop QCD corrections, JHEP 05 (2011) 044 [arXiv:1103.0621] [INSPIRE].
F. Maltoni, D. Pagani and I. Tsinikos, Associated production of a top-quark pair with vector bosons at NLO in QCD: impact on \( t\overline{t}H \) searches at the LHC, JHEP 02 (2016) 113 [arXiv:1507.05640] [INSPIRE].
M.V. Garzelli, A. Kardos, C.G. Papadopoulos and Z. Trocsanyi, \( t\overline{t}W \)+− and \( t\overline{t} \)Z Hadroproduction at NLO accuracy in QCD with Parton Shower and Hadronization effects, JHEP 11 (2012) 056 [arXiv:1208.2665] [INSPIRE].
F. Febres Cordero, M. Kraus and L. Reina, Top-quark pair production in association with a W± gauge boson in the POWHEG-BOX, Phys. Rev. D 103 (2021) 094014 [arXiv:2101.11808] [INSPIRE].
J.M. Campbell and R.K. Ellis, \( t\overline{t}W \)± production and decay at NLO, JHEP 07 (2012) 052 [arXiv:1204.5678] [INSPIRE].
S. Frixione et al., Electroweak and QCD corrections to top-pair hadroproduction in association with heavy bosons, JHEP 06 (2015) 184 [arXiv:1504.03446] [INSPIRE].
J.A. Dror, M. Farina, E. Salvioni and J. Serra, Strong tW Scattering at the LHC, JHEP 01 (2016) 071 [arXiv:1511.03674] [INSPIRE].
R. Frederix, D. Pagani and M. Zaro, Large NLO corrections in \( t\overline{t}W \)± and \( t\overline{t}t\overline{t} \) hadroproduction from supposedly subleading EW contributions, JHEP 02 (2018) 031 [arXiv:1711.02116] [INSPIRE].
R. Frederix and I. Tsinikos, Subleading EW corrections and spin-correlation effects in \( t\overline{t}W \) multi-lepton signatures, Eur. Phys. J. C 80 (2020) 803 [arXiv:2004.09552] [INSPIRE].
H.T. Li, C.S. Li and S.A. Li, Renormalization group improved predictions for \( t\overline{t}W \)± production at hadron colliders, Phys. Rev. D 90 (2014) 094009 [arXiv:1409.1460] [INSPIRE].
A. Broggio, A. Ferroglia, G. Ossola and B.D. Pecjak, Associated production of a top pair and a W boson at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy, JHEP 09 (2016) 089 [arXiv:1607.05303] [INSPIRE].
A. Kulesza et al., Associated production of a top quark pair with a heavy electroweak gauge boson at NLO+NNLL accuracy, Eur. Phys. J. C 79 (2019) 249 [arXiv:1812.08622] [INSPIRE].
A. Broggio et al., Top-quark pair hadroproduction in association with a heavy boson at NLO+NNLL including EW corrections, JHEP 08 (2019) 039 [arXiv:1907.04343] [INSPIRE].
A. Kulesza et al., Associated top quark pair production with a heavy boson: differential cross sections at NLO+NNLL accuracy, Eur. Phys. J. C 80 (2020) 428 [arXiv:2001.03031] [INSPIRE].
S. von Buddenbrock, R. Ruiz and B. Mellado, Anatomy of inclusive \( t\overline{t}W \) production at hadron colliders, Phys. Lett. B 811 (2020) 135964 [arXiv:2009.00032] [INSPIRE].
A. Denner and G. Pelliccioli, NLO QCD corrections to off-shell \( t\overline{t}W \)+ production at the LHC, JHEP 11 (2020) 069 [arXiv:2007.12089] [INSPIRE].
A. Denner and G. Pelliccioli, Combined NLO EW and QCD corrections to off-shell \( t\overline{t}W \) production at the LHC, Eur. Phys. J. C 81 (2021) 354 [arXiv:2102.03246] [INSPIRE].
G. Bevilacqua et al., Modeling uncertainties of \( t\overline{t}W \)± multilepton signatures, Phys. Rev. D 105 (2022) 014018 [arXiv:2109.15181] [INSPIRE].
R.V. Harlander, S.Y. Klein and M. Lipp, FeynGame, Comput. Phys. Commun. 256 (2020) 107465 [arXiv:2003.00896] [INSPIRE].
P. Draggiotis, R.H.P. Kleiss and C.G. Papadopoulos, On the computation of multigluon amplitudes, Phys. Lett. B 439 (1998) 157 [hep-ph/9807207] [INSPIRE].
A. Kanaki and C.G. Papadopoulos, HELAC: A Package to compute electroweak helicity amplitudes, Comput. Phys. Commun. 132 (2000) 306 [hep-ph/0002082] [INSPIRE].
P.D. Draggiotis, R.H.P. Kleiss and C.G. Papadopoulos, Multijet production in hadron collisions, Eur. Phys. J. C 24 (2002) 447 [hep-ph/0202201] [INSPIRE].
A. Denner, S. Dittmaier, M. Roth and D. Wackeroth, Predictions for all processes e+e− → 4 fermions +γ, Nucl. Phys. B 560 (1999) 33 [hep-ph/9904472] [INSPIRE].
A. Denner, S. Dittmaier, M. Roth and L.H. Wieders, Electroweak corrections to charged-current e+e− → 4 fermion processes: Technical details and further results, Nucl. Phys. B 724 (2005) 247 [hep-ph/0505042] [INSPIRE].
G. Bevilacqua et al., Complete off-shell effects in top quark pair hadroproduction with leptonic decay at next-to-leading order, JHEP 02 (2011) 083 [arXiv:1012.4230] [INSPIRE].
A. Denner, S. Dittmaier, S. Kallweit and S. Pozzorini, NLO QCD corrections to off-shell top-antitop production with leptonic decays at hadron colliders, JHEP 10 (2012) 110 [arXiv:1207.5018] [INSPIRE].
A. Denner and J.-N. Lang, The Complex-Mass Scheme and Unitarity in perturbative Quantum Field Theory, Eur. Phys. J. C 75 (2015) 377 [arXiv:1406.6280] [INSPIRE].
G. Bevilacqua et al., HELAC-NLO, Comput. Phys. Commun. 184 (2013) 986 [arXiv:1110.1499] [INSPIRE].
A. van Hameren, C.G. Papadopoulos and R. Pittau, Automated one-loop calculations: A Proof of concept, JHEP 09 (2009) 106 [arXiv:0903.4665] [INSPIRE].
A. Cafarella, C.G. Papadopoulos and M. Worek, Helac-Phegas: A Generator for all parton level processes, Comput. Phys. Commun. 180 (2009) 1941 [arXiv:0710.2427] [INSPIRE].
A. van Hameren, PARNI for importance sampling and density estimation, Acta Phys. Polon. B 40 (2009) 259 [arXiv:0710.2448] [INSPIRE].
A. van Hameren, Kaleu: A General-Purpose Parton-Level Phase Space Generator, arXiv:1003.4953 [INSPIRE].
P. Nogueira, Automatic Feynman graph generation, J. Comput. Phys. 105 (1993) 279 [INSPIRE].
G. ’t Hooft and M.J.G. Veltman, Regularization and Renormalization of Gauge Fields, Nucl. Phys. B 44 (1972) 189 [INSPIRE].
G. Ossola, C.G. Papadopoulos and R. Pittau, Reducing full one-loop amplitudes to scalar integrals at the integrand level, Nucl. Phys. B 763 (2007) 147 [hep-ph/0609007] [INSPIRE].
G. Ossola, C.G. Papadopoulos and R. Pittau, CutTools: A Program implementing the OPP reduction method to compute one-loop amplitudes, JHEP 03 (2008) 042 [arXiv:0711.3596] [INSPIRE].
A. van Hameren, OneLOop: For the evaluation of one-loop scalar functions, Comput. Phys. Commun. 182 (2011) 2427 [arXiv:1007.4716] [INSPIRE].
J. Alwall et al., The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations, JHEP 07 (2014) 079 [arXiv:1405.0301] [INSPIRE].
G. Bevilacqua et al., \( t\overline{t}b\overline{b} \) at the LHC: on the size of corrections and b-jet definitions, JHEP 08 (2021) 008 [arXiv:2105.08404] [INSPIRE].
S. Catani and M.H. Seymour, A General algorithm for calculating jet cross-sections in NLO QCD, Nucl. Phys. B 485 (1997) 291 [hep-ph/9605323] [INSPIRE].
S. Catani, S. Dittmaier, M.H. Seymour and Z. Trocsanyi, The Dipole formalism for next-to-leading order QCD calculations with massive partons, Nucl. Phys. B 627 (2002) 189 [hep-ph/0201036] [INSPIRE].
M. Czakon, C.G. Papadopoulos and M. Worek, Polarizing the Dipoles, JHEP 08 (2009) 085 [arXiv:0905.0883] [INSPIRE].
G. Bevilacqua, M. Czakon, M. Kubocz and M. Worek, Complete Nagy-Soper subtraction for next-to-leading order calculations in QCD, JHEP 10 (2013) 204 [arXiv:1308.5605] [INSPIRE].
G. Bevilacqua et al., Assault on the NLO Wishlist: pp → \( t\overline{t}b\overline{b} \), JHEP 09 (2009) 109 [arXiv:0907.4723] [INSPIRE].
M. Czakon, H.B. Hartanto, M. Kraus and M. Worek, Matching the Nagy-Soper parton shower at next-to-leading order, JHEP 06 (2015) 033 [arXiv:1502.00925] [INSPIRE].
J. Alwall et al., A Standard format for Les Houches event files, Comput. Phys. Commun. 176 (2007) 300 [hep-ph/0609017] [INSPIRE].
I. Antcheva et al., ROOT: A C++ framework for petabyte data storage, statistical analysis and visualization, Comput. Phys. Commun. 180 (2009) 2499 [arXiv:1508.07749] [INSPIRE].
Z. Bern et al., Ntuples for NLO Events at Hadron Colliders, Comput. Phys. Commun. 185 (2014) 1443 [arXiv:1310.7439] [INSPIRE].
G. Bevilacqua, unpublished (2019).
PDF4LHC Working Group collaboration, The PDF4LHC21 combination of global PDF fits for the LHC Run III, J. Phys. G 49 (2022) 080501 [arXiv:2203.05506] [INSPIRE].
NNPDF collaboration, Parton distributions from high-precision collider data, Eur. Phys. J. C 77 (2017) 663 [arXiv:1706.00428] [INSPIRE].
T.-J. Hou et al., New CTEQ global analysis of quantum chromodynamics with high-precision data from the LHC, Phys. Rev. D 103 (2021) 014013 [arXiv:1912.10053] [INSPIRE].
S. Bailey et al., Parton distributions from LHC, HERA, Tevatron and fixed target data: MSHT20 PDFs, Eur. Phys. J. C 81 (2021) 341 [arXiv:2012.04684] [INSPIRE].
S. Dulat et al., New parton distribution functions from a global analysis of quantum chromodynamics, Phys. Rev. D 93 (2016) 033006 [arXiv:1506.07443] [INSPIRE].
A. Buckley et al., LHAPDF6: parton density access in the LHC precision era, Eur. Phys. J. C 75 (2015) 132 [arXiv:1412.7420] [INSPIRE].
Particle Data Group collaboration, Review of Particle Physics, PTEP 2020 (2020) 083C01 [INSPIRE].
M. Cacciari, G.P. Salam and G. Soyez, The anti-kt jet clustering algorithm, JHEP 04 (2008) 063 [arXiv:0802.1189] [INSPIRE].
G. Bevilacqua, H.B. Hartanto, M. Kraus and M. Worek, Off-shell Top Quarks with One Jet at the LHC: A comprehensive analysis at NLO QCD, JHEP 11 (2016) 098 [arXiv:1609.01659] [INSPIRE].
D. Stremmer and M. Worek, Production and decay of the Higgs boson in association with top quarks, JHEP 02 (2022) 196 [arXiv:2111.01427] [INSPIRE].
G. Bevilacqua et al., NLO QCD corrections to full off-shell production of \( t\overline{t}Z \) including leptonic decays, JHEP 08 (2022) 060 [arXiv:2203.15688] [INSPIRE].
K. Hamilton, P. Nason and G. Zanderighi, MINLO: Multi-Scale Improved NLO, JHEP 10 (2012) 155 [arXiv:1206.3572] [INSPIRE].
C.F. Berger et al., Higgs Production with a Central Jet Veto at NNLL+NNLO, JHEP 04 (2011) 092 [arXiv:1012.4480] [INSPIRE].
I.W. Stewart, F.J. Tackmann and W.J. Waalewijn, N-Jettiness: An Inclusive Event Shape to Veto Jets, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 (2010) 092002 [arXiv:1004.2489] [INSPIRE].
T. Becher and M. Neubert, Factorization and NNLL Resummation for Higgs Production with a Jet Veto, JHEP 07 (2012) 108 [arXiv:1205.3806] [INSPIRE].
A. Banfi, G.P. Salam and G. Zanderighi, NLL+NNLO predictions for jet-veto efficiencies in Higgs-boson and Drell-Yan production, JHEP 06 (2012) 159 [arXiv:1203.5773] [INSPIRE].
A. Banfi, P.F. Monni, G.P. Salam and G. Zanderighi, Higgs and Z-boson production with a jet veto, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 (2012) 202001 [arXiv:1206.4998] [INSPIRE].
J.K.L. Michel, P. Pietrulewicz and F.J. Tackmann, Jet Veto Resummation with Jet Rapidity Cuts, JHEP 04 (2019) 142 [arXiv:1810.12911] [INSPIRE].
J.M. Campbell, R.K. Ellis, T. Neumann and S. Seth, Jet-veto resummation at N3LLp + NNLO in boson production processes, JHEP 04 (2023) 106 [arXiv:2301.11768] [INSPIRE].
Acknowledgments
The work of M.R. and M.W. was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under grant 396021762 TRR 257: P3H — Particle Physics Phenomenology after the Higgs Discovery. Support by a grant of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) is additionally acknowledged.
The research of H.Y.B. was supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No. 2022TQ0012 and No. 2023M730097.
Simulations were performed with computing resources granted by RWTH Aachen University under projects p0020216 and rwth0414.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
Publisher’s Note
Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
ArXiv ePrint: 2305.03802
Rights and permissions
Open Access . This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
About this article
Cite this article
Bi, HY., Kraus, M., Reinartz, M. et al. NLO QCD predictions for off-shell \( t\overline{t}W \) production in association with a light jet at the LHC. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 26 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2023)026
Received:
Revised:
Accepted:
Published:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2023)026