The Thrust Distribution at NNLO+NNLL in Higgs Decays to Quarks and Gluons

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Auteurs principaux: Fox, Elliot, Ridder, Aude Gehrmann-De, Gehrmann, Thomas, Glover, Nigel, Marcoli, Matteo, Preuss, Christian T.
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author Fox, Elliot
Ridder, Aude Gehrmann-De
Gehrmann, Thomas
Glover, Nigel
Marcoli, Matteo
Preuss, Christian T.
author_facet Fox, Elliot
Ridder, Aude Gehrmann-De
Gehrmann, Thomas
Glover, Nigel
Marcoli, Matteo
Preuss, Christian T.
contents We present a calculation of the thrust distribution in Higgs decays to quarks and gluons, $H\to b\bar{b}$, $H\to c\bar{c}$, and $H\to gg$, including the resummation of large logarithmic corrections that arise in the two-particle limit at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) accuracy, and match it to fixed-order results for three-particle decays at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling. The resummation is performed analytically within the ARES framework and combined with the fixed-order results using the logR matching technique. The fixed-order calculation is carried out numerically with the NNLOJET parton-level event generator, using the antenna subtraction method. We perform detailed cross-validation in the two-particle region, demonstrating that the expansion of the NNLL resummed result correctly reproduces the logarithmic structure of the fixed-order calculation to $\mathcal{O}(α_\mathrm{s}^3)$, up to a predictable N$^{3}$LL term at $\mathcal{O}(α_\mathrm{s}^3L)$. In addition to providing the first NNLO+NNLL accurate predictions for the thrust distribution in Higgs decays to quarks and gluons, we analytically extract the $\mathcal{O}(α_\mathrm{s}^2)$ hard-virtual correction $c_2$ and the $α_\mathrm{s}^3L$ term $G_{31}$ in both the $H\to q\bar{q}$ ($q=b,c$) and $H\to gg$ decay channels.
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spellingShingle The Thrust Distribution at NNLO+NNLL in Higgs Decays to Quarks and Gluons
Fox, Elliot
Ridder, Aude Gehrmann-De
Gehrmann, Thomas
Glover, Nigel
Marcoli, Matteo
Preuss, Christian T.
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
We present a calculation of the thrust distribution in Higgs decays to quarks and gluons, $H\to b\bar{b}$, $H\to c\bar{c}$, and $H\to gg$, including the resummation of large logarithmic corrections that arise in the two-particle limit at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) accuracy, and match it to fixed-order results for three-particle decays at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling. The resummation is performed analytically within the ARES framework and combined with the fixed-order results using the logR matching technique. The fixed-order calculation is carried out numerically with the NNLOJET parton-level event generator, using the antenna subtraction method. We perform detailed cross-validation in the two-particle region, demonstrating that the expansion of the NNLL resummed result correctly reproduces the logarithmic structure of the fixed-order calculation to $\mathcal{O}(α_\mathrm{s}^3)$, up to a predictable N$^{3}$LL term at $\mathcal{O}(α_\mathrm{s}^3L)$. In addition to providing the first NNLO+NNLL accurate predictions for the thrust distribution in Higgs decays to quarks and gluons, we analytically extract the $\mathcal{O}(α_\mathrm{s}^2)$ hard-virtual correction $c_2$ and the $α_\mathrm{s}^3L$ term $G_{31}$ in both the $H\to q\bar{q}$ ($q=b,c$) and $H\to gg$ decay channels.
title The Thrust Distribution at NNLO+NNLL in Higgs Decays to Quarks and Gluons
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11665