Four-jet event shapes in hadronic Higgs decays

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Main Authors: Ridder, Aude Gehrmann-De, Preuss, Christian T, Williams, Ciaran
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author Ridder, Aude Gehrmann-De
Preuss, Christian T
Williams, Ciaran
author_facet Ridder, Aude Gehrmann-De
Preuss, Christian T
Williams, Ciaran
contents We present next-to-leading order perturbative QCD predictions for four-jet-like event-shape observables in hadronic Higgs decays. To this end, we take into account two Higgs-decay categories: involving either the Yukawa-induced decay to a $b\bar{b}$ pair or the loop-induced decay to two gluons via an effective Higgs-gluon-gluon coupling. We present results for distributions related to the event-shape variables thrust minor, light-hemisphere mass, narrow jet broadening, $D$-parameter, and Durham four-to-three-jet transition variable. For each of these observables we study the impact of higher-order corrections and compare their size and shape in the two Higgs-decay categories. We find large NLO corrections with a visible shape difference between the two decay modes, leading to a significant shift of the peak in distributions related to the $H\to gg$ decay mode.
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spellingShingle Four-jet event shapes in hadronic Higgs decays
Ridder, Aude Gehrmann-De
Preuss, Christian T
Williams, Ciaran
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We present next-to-leading order perturbative QCD predictions for four-jet-like event-shape observables in hadronic Higgs decays. To this end, we take into account two Higgs-decay categories: involving either the Yukawa-induced decay to a $b\bar{b}$ pair or the loop-induced decay to two gluons via an effective Higgs-gluon-gluon coupling. We present results for distributions related to the event-shape variables thrust minor, light-hemisphere mass, narrow jet broadening, $D$-parameter, and Durham four-to-three-jet transition variable. For each of these observables we study the impact of higher-order corrections and compare their size and shape in the two Higgs-decay categories. We find large NLO corrections with a visible shape difference between the two decay modes, leading to a significant shift of the peak in distributions related to the $H\to gg$ decay mode.
title Four-jet event shapes in hadronic Higgs decays
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09354