2013

Reducing theoretical uncertainties for exclusive Higgs plus one-jet production at the LHC

Liu, Xiaohui, Petriello, Frank

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We resum a class of large Sudakov logarithms affecting Higgs boson production in the exclusive one-jet bin at the LHC.

  • We extend previous results by calculating the full one-loop soft function for this process, which extends the accuracy of the resummation to include the leading three logarithmic corrections at each order in the QCD coupling constant.
  • We match this result to the next-to-leading order cross section and present a detailed numerical study assuming realistic LHC cuts.
  • Careful attention is paid to the matching procedure, and to the theoretical uncertainties induced by residual scale variation.

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