Fiducial distributions in Higgs and Drell-Yan production at N3LL+NNLO

Bizoń, W.; Chen, X.; Gehrmann-De Ridder, A.; Gehrmann, T.; Glover, N.; Huss, A.; Monni, P.F.; Re, E.; Rottoli, L.; Torrielli, P.

Abstract

The perturbative description of certain differential distributions across a wide kinematic range requires the matching of fixed-order perturbation theory with resummation of large logarithmic corrections to all orders. We present precise matched predictions for transverse-momentum distributions in Higgs boson (H) and Drell-Yan pair (DY) production as well as for the closely related ϕ η * distribution at the LHC. The calculation is exclusive in the Born kinematics, and allows for arbitrary fiducial selection cuts on the decay products of the colour singlets, which is of primary relevance for experimental analyses. Our predictions feature very small residual scale uncertainties and display a good convergence of the perturbative series. A comparison of the predictions for DY observables to experimental data at 8 TeV shows a very good agreement within the quoted errors.

Citation

Bizoń, W., Chen, X., Gehrmann-De Ridder, A., Gehrmann, T., Glover, N., Huss, A., …Torrielli, P. (2018). Fiducial distributions in Higgs and Drell-Yan production at N3LL+NNLO. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(12), Article 132. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12%282018%29132

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 13, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Dec 21, 2018
• Publication Date: Dec 21, 2018
• Deposit Date: Jan 3, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 3, 2019
• Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Print ISSN: 1126-6708
• Publisher: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2018
• Issue: 12
• Article Number: 132
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12%282018%29132
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1311375