NLO single-top production matched with shower in POWHEG: s- and t-channel contributions

By Simone Alioli, P. Nason, Carlo Oleari, E. Re. 2009

966 citations recorded by the source corpus.

We present a next-to-leading order calculation of single-top production interfaced to Shower Monte Carlo programs, implemented according to the POWHEG method. A detailed comparison with MC@NLO and PYTHIA is carried out for several observables, for the Tevatron and LHC colliders.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/c7ebdacd0786bffee385aa79f83ba5e5192a99f6

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Citations in the corpus

Evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a bottom quark–antiquark pair (2018, methodology): “The single top quark samples for the tW- [55] and s-channel [56] are instead produced with powheg v1.”
HatHor for single top-quark production: Updated predictions and uncertainty estimates for single top-quark production in hadronic collisions (2014, methodology): “Two implementations have been presented: one58 in the MC@NLO framework [18] another in the POWHEG framework [19].59 2 ) s-channel production i an diagra s in leading order for the domina t r tt ri r ce se in t t r r cesses of single I .”
Search for production of vector-like quark pairs and of four top quarks in the lepton-plus-jets final state in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector (2015, methodology): “0 [102, 103] using the CT10 PDF set and interfaced to Pythia 6.”
NLO Higgs boson production via vector-boson fusion matched with shower in POWHEG (2009, methodology): “Until now, the POWHEG method has been applied to ZZ pair hadroproduction [22], heavy-flavour production [23], e+e− annihilation into hadrons [24] and into top pairs [25], Drell-Yan vector boson production [26, 27], W ′ production [28], Higgs boson production via gluon fusion [29, 30], Higgs boson pr”
Single-top Wt-channel production matched with parton showers using the POWHEG method (2010, methodology): “The main purpose of this work was the completion of the work presented in [ 41 ], where the POWHEG implementation of single-top s- and t-channel was described.”
Les Houches 2017: Physics at TeV Colliders Standard Model Working Group Report (2017, methodology): “As a consequence, an improvement of the resonance treatment has been implemented in POWHEG-BOX-RES, called “resonance aware matching”, and combined with NLO matrix elements from OpenLoops [85], to arrive at the most complete description so far [357], based on the framework developed in Ref.”
Measurement of the t-channel single-top-quarkproduction cross section and of the |Vtb| CKM matrixelement in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV (2014, unknown): “0 [19–22] interfaced to pythia 6.”
The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations (2014, methodology): “One such case is that of the so-called gap fractions, which have been measured in the dilepton channel by both ATLAS (at 7 TeV [360]) and CMS (at 7 [361] and 8 TeV [362]), and compared to various theoretical predictions – MC@NLO with HERWIG6, POWHEG with both HERWIG6 and Pythia, MadGraph with Pythia”
Hadronic top-quark pair-production with one jet and parton showering (2011, methodology): “Here we follow a different approach, that was first introduce d in [61] and has already been employed and discussed in both implementations, POWHEG [18,19,62] andMC@NLO [16,63].”