ttbb and ttZ proc card settings
Dear experts,
Can I ask you some question about generating ttbb events?
I am tryting to study EFT effects in ttH and ttZ events with a focus on H/Z->bb decays using the dim6top model [1], and also would like to check EFT effects on the main background process, ttbb. I am hoping to generate (1) ttZ, (2) ttH, and (3) ttbb, separately, in a way we can add them in a most seamless way.
The ttH and ttZ are generated with these proc card settings [5,6]. In order to avoid ttH with H->bb and ttZ with Z->bb decays in the ttbb sample, for the ttbb proc card, I was using "/h z" [3], but after checking [2] I thought it may be better to do "$z h" [4] for potential off-Z contributions and interference effect, but I am not completely sure. In run card, I use Breight-Wigner cut off of 15.0 GeV. I just wanted to check these settings make sense with experts.
And, for ttZ for example, is there a way to to get relative contributions of Z coming from ISR vs Z coming from FSR [7] in madgraph? And for ttZ proc card, I often see "/h" and I am adding it in [6], but I am not sure what's the motivation/benefit of it. I again wanted to get experts' inputs on it.
Thank you for your help.
Cheers,
Ken
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[3] proc card for ttbb, 4 flavor scheme, option 1
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import model dim6top_LO_UFO
generate p p > t t~ b b~ /h z FCNC=0 DIM6=1 @0
add process p p > t t~ b b~ j /h z FCNC=0 DIM6=1 @1
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[4] proc card for ttbb, 4 flavor scheme, option 2
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import model dim6top_LO_UFO
generate p p > t t~ b b~ $z h FCNC=0 DIM6=1 @0
add process p p > t t~ b b~ j $z h FCNC=0 DIM6=1 @1
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[5] proc card for ttH, 5 flavor scheme
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import model dim6top_LO_UFO
define p = p b b~
define j = p
generate p p > t t~ h FCNC=0 DIM6=1 @0
add process p p > t t~ h j FCNC=0 DIM6=1 @1
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and higgs is decayed with Pythia.
[6] proc card for ttZ, 5 flavor scheme
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import model dim6top_LO_UFO
define p = p b b~
define j = p
define ell+ = e+ mu+ ta+
define ell- = e- mu- ta-
generate p p > t t~ z / h FCNC=0 DIM6=1, (z > j j FCNC=0 DIM6=0) @0
add process p p > t t~ z / h FCNC=0 DIM6=1, (z > vl vl~ FCNC=0 DIM6=0) @1
add process p p > t t~ z / h FCNC=0 DIM6=1, (z > ell+ ell- FCNC=0 DIM6=0) @2
add process p p > t t~ z j / h FCNC=0 DIM6=1, (z > j j FCNC=0 DIM6=0) @3
add process p p > t t~ z j / h FCNC=0 DIM6=1, (z > vl vl~ FCNC=0 DIM6=0) @4
add process p p > t t~ z j / h FCNC=0 DIM6=1, (z > ell+ ell- FCNC=0 DIM6=0) @5
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[7] http://
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