Project Details
Projekt
Precision top-quark physics at the LHC (B1b)
Subject Area
Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Fields
Term
since 2019
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 396021762
The goal of the project is to provide state-of-the-art theoretical predictions for a broad class of processes that involve top quark pair production with an additional final state. We consider the process pp → tt + X, where X=H,W, Z, photon, jet, di-photon, bb, tt, di-jet. Depending on the final state, results for the LHC with higher order corrections at unprecedented level will be provided in the form of flexible Monte Carlo programs that can be used to generate any infrared safe observable. Specifically, the precision will be increased in two directions: either through the inclusion of full off-shell effects at NLO QCD + NLO electroweak for top-quark pair production in association with additional final state particles, or through the calculation of NNLO QCD corrections for pp → tt + X, where X is the Higgs boson or a weak boson.
DFG Programme
CRC/Transregios
Applicant Institution
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Project Heads
Professor Dr. Michal Czakon; Professorin Dr. Gudrun Heinrich, since 1/2023; Professorin Dr. Malgorzata Worek
