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Complete Electroweak Corrections to Higgs production in a Standard Model with four generations at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Complete electroweak two-loop corrections to the process ggHgg \to H are presented and discussed in a Standard Model with a fourth generation of heavy fermions. The latter is studied at the LHC to put exclusion limits on a fourth generation of heavy fermions. Therefore also a precise knowledge of the electroweak(EW) next-to-leading-order(NLO) corrections is important. The corrections due to the fourth generation are positive and large for a light Higgs boson, positive but relatively small around the tˉt\bar{t}-t threshold and start to become negative for a Higgs boson mass around MH=450GeVM_H = 450 GeV. Increasing further the value of the Higgs boson mass, the EW NLO effects tend to become huge and negative, O(100{\cal O}(-100%), around the heavy-fermion threshold, assumed at 1.2TeV1.2 TeV, so that gggg-fusion becomes non-perturbative. Above that threshold they start to grow again and become positive around MH=1.75TeVM_H= 1.75 TeV. The behaviour at even larger values of MHM_H shows a positive enhancement, O(+100{\cal O}(+100%) at MH=3TeVM_H= 3 TeV.

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@article{arxiv.1108.2025,
  title  = {Complete Electroweak Corrections to Higgs production in a Standard Model with four generations at the LHC},
  author = {Giampiero Passarino and Christian Sturm and Sandro Uccirati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.2025},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages, 5 figures