Off-shell $t\bar{t}{W}^{+}j$ production at NLO QCD accuracy

Abstract

We report on our recent full off-shell $pp\to t\bar{t}{W}^{+}j+X$ calculation at the NLO level in QCD. Unstable resonant particles like the $W^{\pm }/Z$ vector bosons and top quarks are modelled with Breit-Wigner propagators. Furthermore double-, single- and non-resonant contributions as well as all their interference terms are consistently included at the matrix element level. We provide integrated and differential (fiducial) cross-section results and investigate the size of theoretical uncertainties as well as the impact of renormalization- and factorization scale settings on the theoretical predictions. Finally, we explore the effects of additional jet activity in $t\bar{t}{W}^{+}$ production and top-quark decays.

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, 42nd International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2024) - 18-24 July 2024, Prague, Czech Republic