Vbfnlo: A parton level Monte Carlo for processes with electroweak bosons

By K. Arnold, M. Bähr, G. Bozzi, F. Campanario, Christoph R. Englert, T. Figy, Nicolas Greiner, C. Hackstein, V. Hankele, Barbara Jäger and 7 more. Computer Physics Communications, 2008

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Vbfnlo is a fully flexible parton level Monte Carlo program for the simulation of vector boson fusion, double and triple vector boson production in hadronic collisions at next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant. Vbfnlo includes Higgs and vector boson decays with full spin correlations and all off-shell effects. In addition, Vbfnlo implements CP-even and CP-odd Higgs boson via gluon fusion, associated with two jets, at the leading-order one-loop level with the full top- and bottom-quark mass dependence in a generic two-Higgs-doublet model. A variety of effects arising from beyond the Standard Model physics are implemented for selected processes. This includes anomalous couplings of Higgs and vector bosons and a Warped Higgsless extra dimension model. The program offers the possibility to generate Les Houches Accord event files for all processes available at leading order.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC (2012, unknown): “For the VBF process, full QCD and EW corrections up to NLO [38–41] and approximate NNLO QCD corrections [42] are used to calculate the cross section.”
Automated event generation for loop-induced processes (2015, methodology): “We prefix by a star (?) processes which are not readily available in the main public simulation tools MCFM [42], VBFNLO [47] or HPAIR [48].”
Measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates and coupling strengths using pp collision data at \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\o (2015, unknown): “For the VBF process, full QCD and EW corrections up to NLO [48–50] and approximate NNLO [51,52] QCD corrections are used to calculate the cross section.”
The measurement of the Higgs self-coupling at the LHC: theoretical status (2012, methodology): “In the next section, we discuss the QCD radiative corrections to double Higgs production in the gluon fusion, vector boson fusion and Higgs-strahlung processes (the tt̄HH process will be only considered at tree-level) and how they are implemented in the programs HPAIR [91], VBFNLO [92] and a code de”
Search for invisible decays of a Higgs boson produced through vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV (2018, methodology): “Similarly, Z+jets (EW) and W+jets (EW) processes are corrected with NLO QCD K-factors derived using the VBFNLO event generator [54, 55] as a function of boson pT and mjj.”
Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 1. Inclusive Observables (2011, methodology): “The integration error for the VBFNLO results is of order0.”