Paper
A Positive-Weight Next-to-Leading-Order Monte Carlo for Heavy Flavour Hadroproduction
Authors
Stefano Frixione, Paolo Nason, Giovanni Ridolfi
Abstract
We present a next-to-leading order calculation of heavy flavour production in hadronic collisions that can be interfaced to shower Monte Carlo programs. The calculation is performed in the context of the POWHEG method. It is suitable for the computation of charm, bottom and top hadroproduction. In the case of top production, spin correlations in the decay products are taken into account.