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We present a calculation of heavy-flavor production in hadronic collisions in association with one jet matched to parton shower Monte Carlo programs at next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. Top-quark decays are included and spin correlations in the decay products are taken into account. The calculation builds on existing results for the radiative corrections to heavy-quark plus one jet production and uses the POWHEG BOX for the interface to the parton shower programs PYTHIA or HERWIG. A broad phenomenological study for the Large Hadron Collider and the Tevatron is presented. In particular we study — as one important sample application — the impact of the parton shower on the top-quark charge asymmetry.
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Alioli, S., Moch, SO. & Uwer, P. Hadronic top-quark pair-production with one jet and parton showering. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 137 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2012)137
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