Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-10-08
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
7 pages
Scientific paper
The main Higgs production channel at hadron colliders is gluon fusion via heavy-quark loops. We present the results of a fully exclusive simulation of gluon fusion Higgs production based on the matrix elements for h + 0, 1, 2 partons including full heavy-quark loop dependence, matched to a parton shower. We consider a Higgs with standard model couplings as well as models where the Higgs has enhanced couplings to bottom quarks (b-philic). We study the most relevant kinematic distributions, such as jet and Higgs pT spectra and find that matched samples provide an accurate description of the final state. For the SM Higgs, we confirm the excellent accuracy of the large heavy-quark-mass approximation also in differential distributions over all phase space, with significant effects arising only at large pT . For a b-philic Higgs however, the loops have a dramatic impact on the kinematics of the Higgs as well as of the jets and need to be accounted for exactly to achieve reliable event simulations.
Alwall Johan
Li Qiang
Maltoni Fabio
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