NLO QCD corrections to off-shell top-antitop production with leptonic decays in association with a Higgs boson at the LHC

摘要

A bstract We compute the hadronic production of top-antitop pairs in association with a Higgs boson at next-to-leading-order QCD, including the decay of the top and antitop quark into bottom quarks and leptons. Our computation is based on full leading and next-to-leading-order matrix elements for e + ν e μ ? ν ˉ μ b b ˉ H j $$ {mathrm{e}}^{+}{u}_{mathrm{e}}{mu}^{-}{overline{u}}_{mu}mathrm{b}overline{mathrm{b}}mathrm{H}left(mathrm{j}ight) $$ and includes all non-resonant contributions, off-shell effects and interferences. Numerical results for the integrated cross section and several differential distributions are given for the LHC operating at 13 TeV using a fixed and a dynamical factorization and renormalization scale. The use of the dynamical instead of the fixed scale improves the perturbative stability in high-energy tails of most distributions, while the integrated cross section is hardly affected differing by only about one per cent and leading to almost the same K factor of about 1.17.