Precise Predictions for the Associated Production of a <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>W</mml:mi></mml:math> Boson with a Top-Antitop Quark Pair at the LHC
Luca Buonocore, Simone Devoto, Massimiliano Grazzini, Stefan Kallweit, Javier Mazzitelli, Luca Rottoli, Chiara Savoini
Abstract
Significant reduction in the perturbative uncertainty due to the first second-order QCD calculation of the hadroproduction of a $W$ boson in association with a top-antitop quark pair could lead to stringent tests of the standard model.
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