Lars Ferencz, Stefan Höche, Judith Katzy, Frank Siegert
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Abstract
Top-quark pair production in association with two b-jets is computed at next-to-leading order QCD precision, including effects of the b-quark mass, and matched to a \( t\overline{t} \)+jets simulation in a variable flavor number scheme. The Monte Carlo realization of this method, called fusing, consistently embeds the four-flavor calculation in a particle-level event generator. As a first phenomenological application, we present observables relevant to the data-driven estimation of irreducible backgrounds to \( t\overline{t}H \)-production.
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