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

Abstract

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 $e^{+}{\nu }_e{\mu }^{-}{\bar{\nu }}_{\mu }b\bar{b}H(j)$ 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 the same K factor of 1.17.

18 pages, 1 table, 30 figures, version to appear in JHEP, numerical analysis somewhat extended

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