Data di Pubblicazione:
2019
Citazione:
Top-Yukawa contributions to bbH production at the LHC / N. Deutschmann, F. Maltoni, M. Wiesemann, M. Zaro. - In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. - ISSN 1029-8479. - 2019:7(2019 Jul 10). [10.1007/JHEP07(2019)054]
Abstract:
We study the production of a Higgs boson in association with bottom quarks (bb¯ H) in hadronic collisions at the LHC, including the different contributions stemming from terms proportional to the top-quark Yukawa coupling (yt2), to the bottom-quark one (yb2), and to their interference (ybyt). Our results are accurate to next-to-leading order in QCD, employ the four-flavour scheme and the (Born-improved) heavy-top quark approximation. We find that next-to-leading order corrections to the yt2 component are sizable, making it the dominant production mechanism for associated bb¯ H production in the Standard Model and increasing its inclusive rate by almost a factor of two. By studying final-state distributions of the various contributions, we identify observables and selection cuts that can be used to select the various components and to improve the experimental sensitivity of bb¯ H production on the bottom-quark Yukawa coupling.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
NLO Computations
Elenco autori:
N. Deutschmann, F. Maltoni, M. Wiesemann, M. Zaro
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