Resonance aware NLO+PS generator for top quark production at the LHC

by Tomas Jezo (U Milan Bicocca)

Thursday 7 Apr 2016, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Berlin

seminar room 2, building 2A (DESY Hamburg)

I will present a new subtraction method for next-to-leading order calculations that is particularly convenient when narrow resonances are present. The method is suitable for the implementation of next-to-leading order calculations matched to parton shower generators. It allows at the same time for the inclusion of all finite width effects, including interferences, and for a consistent treatment of resonances in the shower approach, preserving the mass of resonances near their peak. We implement our method, in a fully general and automatic way, within the POWHEG BOX framework, and illustrate it on single-top and top-pair production at the LHC.