$t\bar{t}b\bar{b}$ predictions at NLO in QCD and $b$-jet modelling

Abstract

In this contribution we report on the latest theoretical predictions for $t\bar{t}b\bar{b}$. These results are obtained for the fully decayed final state $pp\to e^{+}{\nu }_e{\mu }^{-}{\nu }_{\mu }b\bar{b}b\bar{b}$ at next-to-leading order accuracy in QCD. We present predictions with full off-shell effects and in the Narrow Width Approximation. Specifically, we report on the size of the NLO QCD corrections and the size of the full off-shell effects. Finally, we study the nature of the $b$-jets present in the final state.

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the Proceedings of the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2022), Bologna, Italy, 6-13 July 2022