Theory uncertainties of the irreducible background to VBF Higgs production

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Autori principali: Chen, Xuan, Ravasio, Silvia Ferrario, Haddad, Yacine, Höche, Stefan, Huston, Joey, Jezo, Tomas, Liu, Jia-Sheng, Preuss, Christian T., Tarek, Ahmed, Winter, Jan
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author Chen, Xuan
Ravasio, Silvia Ferrario
Haddad, Yacine
Höche, Stefan
Huston, Joey
Jezo, Tomas
Liu, Jia-Sheng
Preuss, Christian T.
Tarek, Ahmed
Winter, Jan
author_facet Chen, Xuan
Ravasio, Silvia Ferrario
Haddad, Yacine
Höche, Stefan
Huston, Joey
Jezo, Tomas
Liu, Jia-Sheng
Preuss, Christian T.
Tarek, Ahmed
Winter, Jan
contents Higgs boson production through gluon fusion in association with two jets is an irreducible background to Higgs boson production through vector boson fusion, one of the most important channels for analyzing and understanding the Higgs boson properties at the Large Hadron Collider. Despite a range of available simulation tools, precise predictions for the corresponding final states are notoriously hard to achieve. Using state-of-the-art fixed-order calculations as the baseline for a comparison, we perform a detailed study of similarities and differences in existing event generators. We provide consistent setups for the simulations that can be used to obtain identical parametric precision in various programs used by experiments. We find that NLO calculations for the two-jet final state are essential to achieve reliable predictions.
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spellingShingle Theory uncertainties of the irreducible background to VBF Higgs production
Chen, Xuan
Ravasio, Silvia Ferrario
Haddad, Yacine
Höche, Stefan
Huston, Joey
Jezo, Tomas
Liu, Jia-Sheng
Preuss, Christian T.
Tarek, Ahmed
Winter, Jan
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Higgs boson production through gluon fusion in association with two jets is an irreducible background to Higgs boson production through vector boson fusion, one of the most important channels for analyzing and understanding the Higgs boson properties at the Large Hadron Collider. Despite a range of available simulation tools, precise predictions for the corresponding final states are notoriously hard to achieve. Using state-of-the-art fixed-order calculations as the baseline for a comparison, we perform a detailed study of similarities and differences in existing event generators. We provide consistent setups for the simulations that can be used to obtain identical parametric precision in various programs used by experiments. We find that NLO calculations for the two-jet final state are essential to achieve reliable predictions.
title Theory uncertainties of the irreducible background to VBF Higgs production
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10368