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Precise QCD description of the Higgs boson transverse momentum spectrum

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Stewart, Iain W; Chen, Xuan; Gehrmann, Thomas; Glover, E. W. Nigel; Huss, Alexander; Li, Ye; Neill, Duff; Schulze, Markus; Zhu, Hua Xing; ... Show more Show less
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Abstract
The transverse momentum (p T ) 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 p T spectrum by matching second-order (NNLO) QCD corrections at large p T with resummation of third-order logarithmic (N³LL) corrections at small p[subscript T]. We achieve significantly improved results for p[subscript T] <35 GeV with perturbative uncertainties ≲±6%, and thus a convergent perturbative series for all values of p[subscript T].
Date issued
2018-11
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121219
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Journal
Physics Letters B
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Citation
Chen, Xuan et al. "Precise QCD description of the Higgs boson transverse momentum spectrum." Physics Letters B 788 (January 2019): 425-430 © 2018 The Author(s)
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ISSN
0370-2693

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