Combining resummed Higgs predictions across jet bins
By R. Boughezal, Xiao-Hai Liu, Frank Petriello, F. Tackmann, Jonathan R. Walsh. 2013
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Experimental analyses often use jet binning to distinguish between different kinematic regimes and separate contributions from background processes. To accurately model theoretical uncertainties in these measurements, a consistent description of the jet bins is required. We present a complete framework for the combination of resummed results for production processes in different exclusive jet bins, focusing on Higgs production in gluon fusion as an example. We extend the resummation of the Higgs + 1-jet cross section into the challenging low transverse momentum region, lowering the uncertainties considerably. We provide combined predictions with resummation for cross sections in the Higgs + 0-jet and Higgs + 1-jet bins, and give an improved theory covariance matrix for use in experimental studies. We estimate that the relevant theoretical uncertainties on the signal strength in the Higgs to WW analysis are reduced by nearly a factor of 2 compared to the current value.
Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (2014, background): “The consistent combination of results in different jet bins was addressed in [266].”
- Measurements of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel with 36 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector (2018, unknown): “[99, 101], which include NNLL′+NNLO resummation for the pT of the leading jet in QCD, combined with a NLL′+NLO resummation in QCD for the subleading jet.”