Top-quark pair-production with one jet and parton showering at hadron colliders

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We present heavy-flavor production in association with one jet in hadronic collisions matched to parton shower Monte Carlo predictions at next-to-leading order QCD with account of top-quark decays and spin correlations.

• We use the POWHEGBOX for the interface to the parton shower programs PYTHIA or HERWIG.
• Phenomenological studies for the LHC and the Tevatron are presented with particular emphasis on the inclusion of spin-correlation effects in top decay and the impact of the parton shower on the top-quark charge asymmetries.
• As a novel application of the present calculation the measurement of the top-quark mass is discussed.