Fiducial cross sections for Higgs boson production in association with a jet at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD

Caola, Fabrizio; Melnikov, Kirill; Schulze, Markus

Abstract

We extend the recent computation of Higgs boson production in association with a jet through next-tonext-to-leading order in perturbative QCD by including decays of the Higgs boson to electroweak vector bosons. This allows us to compute fiducial cross sections and kinematic distributions including realistic selection criteria for the Higgs boson decay products. As an illustration, we present results for pp → H þ j → γγ þ j closely following the ATLAS 8 TeV analysis and for pp → H þ j → WþW− þ j → eþμ−νν¯ þ j in a CMS-like 13 TeV setup.

Citation

Caola, F., Melnikov, K., & Schulze, M. (2015). Fiducial cross sections for Higgs boson production in association with a jet at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. Physical Review D, 92(7), Article 074032. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.92.074032

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Oct 21, 2015
• Publication Date: Oct 21, 2015
• Deposit Date: Nov 24, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 24, 2018
• Journal: Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology
• Print ISSN: 1550-7998
• Electronic ISSN: 1550-2368
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 92
• Issue: 7
• Article Number: 074032
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.92.074032
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1370627