27 August 2017 to 1 September 2017
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NLO matching for ttbb production with massive b-quarks

29 Aug 2017, 17:00
30m
F15-16

F15-16

Higgs physics and searches Higgs physics and searches

Speaker

Tomas Jezo (University of Zurich)

Description

Theoretical uncertainties in the simulation of ttbb production represent one of the main obstacles that still hamper the observation of Higgs-boson production in association with top-quark pairs in the H->b?b. We present a next-to-leading order (NLO) simulation t?tb?b production with massive b-quarks matched to Pythia within the POWHEG method with the hope of reconciling tension between previous calculations based on
the MC@NLO method.

Primary authors

Jonas Lindert (IPPP Durham) Niccolo Moretti Stefano Augusto Pozzorini (Universitaet Zuerich (CH)) Tomas Jezo (University of Zurich)

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