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Title: Phenomenological analysis of Higgs boson production through gluon fusion in association with jets

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
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  1. DESY Theory Group, Hamburg (Germany)
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  3. Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik, Munchen (Germany)
  4. Univ. Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland)

In this study, we present a detailed phenomenological analysis of the production of a Standard Model Higgs boson in association with up to three jets. We consider the gluon fusion channel using an effective theory in the large top-quark mass limit. Higgs boson production in gluon fusion constitutes an irreducible background to the vector boson fusion (VBF) process; hence the precise knowledge of its characteristics is a prerequisite for any measurement in the VBF channel. The calculation is carried out at next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD in a fully automated way by combining the two programs GoSam and Sherpa. We present numerical results for a large variety of observables for both standard cuts and VBF selection cuts. We find that for all jet multiplicities the NLO corrections are sizeable. This is particularly true in the presence of kinematic selections enhancing the VBF topology, which are based on vetoing additional jet activity. In this case, precise predictions for the background can be made using our calculation by taking the difference between the inclusive H+2 jets and the inclusive H+3 jets result.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515; AC03-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1185175
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1239139
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-16298; arXiv:1506.01016
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2016, Issue 1; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 14 works
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