Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to ttbb production at the LHC

Abstract

In this contribution, we summarize the results from an NLO computation of the production of ttbb in hadronic collisions. The results are obtained by combining two programs: Helac-1Loop, based on the OPP method and the reduction code CutTools, for the virtual one-loop matrix elements and Helac-Dipoles for the real-emission contributions. Selected numerical results are presented for the LHC.

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures. Presented at the XXXIII International Conference of Theoretical Physics, Matter To The Deepest: Recent Developments In Physics of Fundamental Interactions, Ustron, 11-16 September 2009, Poland