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Title: New features in the JHU generator framework: Constraining Higgs boson properties from on-shell and off-shell production

Abstract

We present an extension of the JHUGen and MELA framework, which includes an event generator and library for the matrix element analysis. It enables simulation, optimal discrimination, reweighting techniques, and analysis of a bosonic resonance and the triple and quartic gauge boson interactions with the most general anomalous couplings. The new features, which become especially relevant at the current stage of LHC data taking, are the simulation of gluon fusion and vector boson fusion in the off-shell region, associated $ZH$ production at NLO QCD including the $gg$ initial state, and the simulation of a second spin-zero resonance. We also quote translations of the anomalous coupling measurements into constraints on dimension-six operators of an effective field theory. Some of the new features are illustrated with projections for experimental measurements with the full LHC and HL-LHC datasets.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1668114
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1706075; OSTI ID: 1777210; OSTI ID: 1889913
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0011702; PHY-1404302; PHY-1707887
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review. D.
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Journal Volume: 102 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; particle interactions; particle phenomena; particle production; particles & fields

Citation Formats

Gritsan, Andrei V., Roskes, Jeffrey, Sarica, Ulascan, Schulze, Markus, Xiao, Meng, and Zhou, Yaofu. New features in the JHU generator framework: Constraining Higgs boson properties from on-shell and off-shell production. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevd.102.056022.
Gritsan, Andrei V., Roskes, Jeffrey, Sarica, Ulascan, Schulze, Markus, Xiao, Meng, & Zhou, Yaofu. New features in the JHU generator framework: Constraining Higgs boson properties from on-shell and off-shell production. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.102.056022
Gritsan, Andrei V., Roskes, Jeffrey, Sarica, Ulascan, Schulze, Markus, Xiao, Meng, and Zhou, Yaofu. Mon . "New features in the JHU generator framework: Constraining Higgs boson properties from on-shell and off-shell production". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.102.056022.
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title = {New features in the JHU generator framework: Constraining Higgs boson properties from on-shell and off-shell production},
author = {Gritsan, Andrei V. and Roskes, Jeffrey and Sarica, Ulascan and Schulze, Markus and Xiao, Meng and Zhou, Yaofu},
abstractNote = {We present an extension of the JHUGen and MELA framework, which includes an event generator and library for the matrix element analysis. It enables simulation, optimal discrimination, reweighting techniques, and analysis of a bosonic resonance and the triple and quartic gauge boson interactions with the most general anomalous couplings. The new features, which become especially relevant at the current stage of LHC data taking, are the simulation of gluon fusion and vector boson fusion in the off-shell region, associated $ZH$ production at NLO QCD including the $gg$ initial state, and the simulation of a second spin-zero resonance. We also quote translations of the anomalous coupling measurements into constraints on dimension-six operators of an effective field theory. Some of the new features are illustrated with projections for experimental measurements with the full LHC and HL-LHC datasets.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevd.102.056022},
journal = {Physical Review. D.},
number = 5,
volume = 102,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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