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Angularity in Higgs boson decays via $\boldsymbol{H\to gg}$ at NNLL$'$ accuracy

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-11-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present improved predictions of a class of event-shape distributions called angularity for a contribution from an effective operator HggH\to gg in Higgs hadronic decay that suffers from large perturbative uncertainties. In the frame of Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, logarithmic terms of the distribution are resummed at NNLL' accuracy, for which 2-loop constant of gluon-jet function for angularity is independently determined by a fit to fixed-order distribution at NLO corresponding to O(αs2){\mathcal{O}}(\alpha_s^2) relative to the Born rate. Our determination shows reasonable agreement with the value in a thesis recently released. In the fit, we use an asymptotic form with a fractional power conjectured from recoil corrections at one-loop order and it improves the accuracy of determination in positive values of angularity parameter aa. The resummed distribution is matched to the NLO fixed-order results to make our predictions valid at all angularity values. We also discuss the first moment and subtracted moment of angularity as a function of aa that allow to extract information on leading and subleading nonperturbative corrections associated with gluons.

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@article{arxiv.2311.07282,
  title  = {Angularity in Higgs boson decays via $\boldsymbol{H\to gg}$ at NNLL$'$ accuracy},
  author = {Jiawei Zhu and Yujin Song and Jun Gao and Daekyoung Kang and Tanmay Maji},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.07282},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

33 pages, 12 figures; correcting typos and revising fig. 9, published version in Chinese Physics C