Parton-shower and fixed-order QCD effects in Higgs-boson production in weak-boson fusion and its decays to bottom quarks
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| author | Behring, Arnd Melnikov, Kirill Novikov, Ivan Zanderighi, Giulia |
| author_facet | Behring, Arnd Melnikov, Kirill Novikov, Ivan Zanderighi, Giulia |
| contents | Recently, it was observed [arXiv:2407.09363] that an aggressive cut on the $b$-jets' transverse momenta applied to Higgs-boson production in weak-boson fusion followed by the decay $H \to b \bar b$, leads to very large QCD corrections to the fiducial cross section. In this paper we show that these corrections are caused by soft and collinear QCD radiation and, therefore, can be efficiently treated by a parton shower. We combine the parton-shower description of the decay $H \to b \bar b$ with NNLO QCD corrections to Higgs production in weak-boson fusion and its subsequent decay, and demonstrate that the quality of the theoretical prediction is markedly improved even if $b$-jets with rather high transverse momenta are selected. The remaining uncertainty of the theoretical prediction, mainly driven by imprecise modelling of $H \to b \bar b$ decay, is estimated to be of the order of $\mathcal{O}(5{-}7\%)$. |
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| spellingShingle | Parton-shower and fixed-order QCD effects in Higgs-boson production in weak-boson fusion and its decays to bottom quarks Behring, Arnd Melnikov, Kirill Novikov, Ivan Zanderighi, Giulia High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Recently, it was observed [arXiv:2407.09363] that an aggressive cut on the $b$-jets' transverse momenta applied to Higgs-boson production in weak-boson fusion followed by the decay $H \to b \bar b$, leads to very large QCD corrections to the fiducial cross section. In this paper we show that these corrections are caused by soft and collinear QCD radiation and, therefore, can be efficiently treated by a parton shower. We combine the parton-shower description of the decay $H \to b \bar b$ with NNLO QCD corrections to Higgs production in weak-boson fusion and its subsequent decay, and demonstrate that the quality of the theoretical prediction is markedly improved even if $b$-jets with rather high transverse momenta are selected. The remaining uncertainty of the theoretical prediction, mainly driven by imprecise modelling of $H \to b \bar b$ decay, is estimated to be of the order of $\mathcal{O}(5{-}7\%)$. |
| title | Parton-shower and fixed-order QCD effects in Higgs-boson production in weak-boson fusion and its decays to bottom quarks |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01448 |