Comparison of $t\bar{t}W$ theory predictions in the $3\ell$ channel

Abstract

We report on our recent comparison of various theoretical approaches to predict fiducial signatures for $pp\to t\bar{t}W$ in the $3\ell$ decay channel at $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }_s^3{\alpha }^6)$ and $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }_s{\alpha }^8)$. The comparison includes fixed-order predictions including full off-shell effects as well as predictions based only on the double-resonant contributions by employing the Narrow-Width-Approximation. Furthermore, we include parton-shower matched predictions using the MG5 and POWHEG-BOX frameworks.

Comments: Contribution to 41st International Conference on High Energy physics - ICHEP 2022, 6-13 July 2022, Bologna, Italy