PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 469 - 31st International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS2024) - WG4: QCD with Heavy Flavors and Hadronic Final States
Theoretical predictions for $t{\bar t}W$ cross sections at approximate N$^3$LO
N. Kidonakis* and C. Foster
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Pre-published on: December 27, 2024
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Abstract
We present theoretical calculations of higher-order QCD and electroweak corrections for the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a $W$ boson ($t{\bar t}W$ production) at LHC energies. We show predictions for cross sections at approximate N$^3$LO (aN$^3$LO) which include second-order and third-order soft-gluon corrections added to the exact NLO QCD+electroweak result. We compare our results to recent measurements from the LHC, and we find that our predictions provide improved agreement with the data. We also calculate the top-quark transverse momentum and rapidity distributions in $t{\bar t}W$ production. We find significant enhancements from the higher-order corrections to the total and differential cross sections for this process.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.469.0162
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