Simulating b-associated production of Z and Higgs bosons with the SHERPA event generator

Krauss, Frank; Napoletano, Davide; Schumann, Steffen

Abstract

We compare four- and five-flavor scheme predictions for b-associated production of Z and Higgs bosons. The results are obtained with SHERPA ’s MC@NLO implementation for the four-flavor scheme, treating the b’s as massive, and with multijet merging at leading and next-to-leading order for the fiveflavor schemes. Comparison with data for Z þ bðb¯Þ production at the 7 TeV LHC exhibits strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches and is used to validate predictions for b-associated Higgs-boson production at the 13 TeV Run II.

Citation

Krauss, F., Napoletano, D., & Schumann, S. (2017). Simulating b-associated production of Z and Higgs bosons with the SHERPA event generator. Physical Review D, 95(3), Article 036012. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.95.036012

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 30, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Feb 16, 2017
• Publication Date: Feb 16, 2017
• Deposit Date: Feb 20, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 22, 2017
• Journal: Physical Review D
• Print ISSN: 2470-0010
• Electronic ISSN: 2470-0029
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 95
• Issue: 3
• Article Number: 036012
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.95.036012
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1363532
• Related Public URLs: http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1612.04640