CERN Accelerating science

ATLAS Note
Report number ATL-PHYS-PUB-2022-006
Title Studies of Monte Carlo predictions for the $t\bar{t}b\bar{b}$ process
Corporate Author(s) The ATLAS collaboration
Collaboration ATLAS Collaboration
Publication 2022
Imprint 01 Mar 2022
Number of pages 29
Note All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PUBNOTES/ATL-PHYS-PUB-2022-006
Subject category Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Free keywords MCGENERATORS ; TOP ; MCGENERATORS
Abstract Studies of Monte Carlo generator predictions are presented for top quark pair production in association with bottom quarks ($ttbb$). The calculations are performed at next-to-leading order in QCD for the $ttbb$ matrix-element using the four-flavour scheme. The parameters of the POWHEG+Pythia8 samples are optimised and the results are compared to predictions from POWHEG+HERWIG7 and Sherpa The studies include comparisons to simulations at parton level with stable top quarks, to simulations at particle level and to unfolded data with the aim to implement the improved theoretical knowledge, yield better agreement with data and define systematic uncertainties for the modelling of the $ttbb$ process.
Scientific contact person Pamela Ferrari, (pamela.ferrari@cern.ch)

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