Latest developments in the simulation of final states involving top-pair and heavy bosons

Abstract

I give an overview of recent progress in the simulation of final states involving top-quarks and vector bosons pair. First I'll discuss the recently found solutions needed to simulate fully differential top pair production ($pp\to b\bar{b}$ + 4 leptons) at NLO+PS accuracy, retaining off-shellness and interference effects exactly. In the second part, I'll review the MiNLO (Multi-scale Improved NLO) method, and then show a recent application, namely the simultaneous NLO+PS description of $W^{+}{W}^{-}$ and $W^{+}{W}^{-}+$ 1 jet production.

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to the proceedings of the 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP2016, 3-10 August, 2016, Chicago, USA