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Title: Precise QCD description of the Higgs boson transverse momentum spectrum

Abstract

The transverse momentum ( pT ) distribution of Higgs bosons at hadron colliders enables a detailed probe of its production dynamics and is a key ingredient to precision studies of Higgs boson properties, but receives very large QCD corrections. We obtain a precision prediction for the pT spectrum by matching second-order (NNLO) QCD corrections at large pT with resummation of third-order logarithmic (N 3 LL) corrections at small pT . We achieve significantly improved results for pT<35 GeV with perturbative uncertainties ≲±6% , and thus a convergent perturbative series for all values of pT .

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
OSTI Identifier:
1483146
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1462218; OSTI ID: 1571566; OSTI ID: 1635388
Report Number(s):
arXiv:1805.00736; IPPP/18/28; ZU-TH 16/18; CERN-TH-2018-108; MIT-CTP 5013; HU-EP-18/14; FERMILAB-PUB-18-212-T; LA-UR-19-30462
Journal ID: ISSN 0370-2693; S0370269318308797; PII: S0370269318308797
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0011090; AC52-06NA25396; AC02-07CH11359; 89233218CNA000001
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physics Letters B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physics Letters B Journal Volume: 788 Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0370-2693
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
Netherlands
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Higgs bosons; perturbative QCD; resummation; transverse momentum spectrum; Atomic, Nuclear and Particle Physics

Citation Formats

Chen, Xuan, Gehrmann, Thomas, Glover, E. W. Nigel, Huss, Alexander, Li, Ye, Neill, Duff, Schulze, Markus, Stewart, Iain W., and Zhu, Hua Xing. Precise QCD description of the Higgs boson transverse momentum spectrum. Netherlands: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.11.037.
Chen, Xuan, Gehrmann, Thomas, Glover, E. W. Nigel, Huss, Alexander, Li, Ye, Neill, Duff, Schulze, Markus, Stewart, Iain W., & Zhu, Hua Xing. Precise QCD description of the Higgs boson transverse momentum spectrum. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.11.037
Chen, Xuan, Gehrmann, Thomas, Glover, E. W. Nigel, Huss, Alexander, Li, Ye, Neill, Duff, Schulze, Markus, Stewart, Iain W., and Zhu, Hua Xing. Tue . "Precise QCD description of the Higgs boson transverse momentum spectrum". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.11.037.
@article{osti_1483146,
title = {Precise QCD description of the Higgs boson transverse momentum spectrum},
author = {Chen, Xuan and Gehrmann, Thomas and Glover, E. W. Nigel and Huss, Alexander and Li, Ye and Neill, Duff and Schulze, Markus and Stewart, Iain W. and Zhu, Hua Xing},
abstractNote = {The transverse momentum ( pT ) distribution of Higgs bosons at hadron colliders enables a detailed probe of its production dynamics and is a key ingredient to precision studies of Higgs boson properties, but receives very large QCD corrections. We obtain a precision prediction for the pT spectrum by matching second-order (NNLO) QCD corrections at large pT with resummation of third-order logarithmic (N 3 LL) corrections at small pT . We achieve significantly improved results for pT<35 GeV with perturbative uncertainties ≲±6% , and thus a convergent perturbative series for all values of pT .},
doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2018.11.037},
journal = {Physics Letters B},
number = C,
volume = 788,
place = {Netherlands},
year = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}

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Fig. 1. Fig. 1.: Comparison of the transverse momentum spectrum between fixed-order perturbation theory (FO) and singular terms from the expansion of the resummed prediction (SCET), using the sum of all partonic channels (pp) or with individual partonic channels (gg, qg, qq). In individual channels, q denotes the sum of quark andmore » anti-quark of all flavors.« less

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Subleading power rapidity divergences and power corrections for qT
journal, April 2019

  • Ebert, Markus A.; Moult, Ian; Stewart, Iain W.
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2019, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep04(2019)123

Subleading power rapidity divergences and power corrections for qT
journal, April 2019

  • Ebert, Markus A.; Moult, Ian; Stewart, Iain W.
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2019, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep04(2019)123

The transverse momentum spectrum of weak gauge bosons at N$${}^3$$3LL + NNLO
journal, October 2019


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