Long range correlation in Higgs boson plus two jets production at the LHC

Journal Article · Fri Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physics Letters B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.09.005· OSTI ID:1378334

Sun, Peng ^[1]; Yuan, C. -P. ^[2]; Yuan, Feng ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Nuclear Science Division
2. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Here, we study Higgs boson plus two high energy jets production at the LHC in the kinematics where the two jets are well separated in rapidity. The partonic processes are dominated by the t-channel weak boson fusion (WBF) and gluon fusion (GF) contributions. We derive the associated QCD resummation formalism for the correlation analysis where the total transverse momentum q⊥ of the Higgs boson and two jets is small. Because of different color structures, the resummation results lead to distinguished behaviors: the WBF contribution peaks at relative low q⊥ while all GF channel contributions are strongly de-correlated and spread to a much wider q⊥ range. Furthermore, by applying a kinematic cut on q⊥, one can effectively increase the WBF signal to the GF background by a significant factor. This, then strengthens the ability to investigate the WBF channel in Higgs boson production and study the couplings of Higgs to electroweak bosons.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231; PHY-1417326
• OSTI ID: 1378334
• Journal Information: Physics Letters B, Vol. 762, Issue C; ISSN 0370-2693
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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