Authors: Rikkert Frederix Stefano Frixione Valentin Hirschi Fabio Maltoni Roberto Pittau Paolo Torrielli
Publish Date: 2011/09/12
Volume: 2011, Issue: 9, Pages: 61-
Abstract
We present a study of ell nu bbarb and ell+ ell bbarb production at hadron colliders Our results accurate to the nexttoleading order in QCD are based on automatic matrixelement calculations performed by MadLoop and MadFKS and are given at both the parton level and after the matching with the Herwig event generator achieved with aMCNLO We retain the complete dependence on the bottomquark mass and include exactly all spin correlations of finalstate leptons We discuss the cases of several observables at the LHC which highlight the importance of accurate simulationsThis article is published under an open access license Please check the Copyright Information section for details of this license and what reuse is permitted If your intended use exceeds what is permitted by the license or if you are unable to locate the licence and reuse information please contact the Rights and Permissions team
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