The top induced backgrounds to Higgs production in the WW -> llvv decay channel at NLO in QCD

Abstract

We present the complete NLO contributions to the pp -> e^+ v_e mu^- vbar_m b bbar + X process in the four flavour scheme, i.e. with massive b quarks, and its contribution to the H -> WW -> llvv measurement in the 1-jet bin at the LHC. This background process includes top pair, single top and non-top quark-resonant contributions. The uncertainty at NLO from renormalisation and factorisation scale dependence is about +30% -20%. We show that the NLO corrections are relatively small, and that separating this background in top pair, Wt and b-quark associated llvv is a fair approximation.

4 pages, 5 figures

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