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We present results for the production of a top pair in association with a W - boson at next-to-leading order. We have implemented this process into the parton-level integrator MCFM including the decays of both the top quarks and the W -bosons with full spin correlations. Although the cross section for this process is small, it is a Standard Model source of same-sign lepton events that must be accounted for in many new physics searches. For a particular analysis of same-sign lepton events in which b-quarks are also present, we investigate the effect of the NLO corrections as a function of the signal region cuts.
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Campbell, J.M., Ellis, R.K. \( t\overline t {W^{\pm }} \) production and decay at NLO. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 52 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2012)052
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