Higgs production in association with bottom quarks

We study the production of a Higgs boson in association with bottom quarks in hadronic collisions, and present phenomenological predictions relevant to the 13 TeV LHC. Our results are accurate to the next-to-leading order in QCD, and matched to parton showers through the MC@NLO method; thus, they ar...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2015-02
Main Authors: Wiesemann, M, Frederix, R, Frixione, S, Hirschi, V, Maltoni, F, Torrielli, P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Higgs bosons
Quarks
Transverse momentum
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Summary:We study the production of a Higgs boson in association with bottom quarks in hadronic collisions, and present phenomenological predictions relevant to the 13 TeV LHC. Our results are accurate to the next-to-leading order in QCD, and matched to parton showers through the MC@NLO method; thus, they are fully differential and based on unweighted events, which we shower by using both Herwig++ and Pythia8. We perform the computation in both the four-flavour and the five-flavour schemes, whose results we compare extensively at the level of exclusive observables. In the case of the Higgs transverse momentum, we also consider the analytically-resummed cross section up to the NNLO+NNLL accuracy. In addition, we analyse at \({\cal O}(\alpha_S^3)\) the effects of the interference between the \(b\bar{b}H\) and gluon-fusion production modes.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1409.5301