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$H \rightarrow b\overline{b}j$ at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Accuracy

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-10-12 v3

Abstract

We present the calculation of the decay HbbjH \rightarrow b\overline{b}j at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) accuracy. We consider contributions in which the Higgs boson couples directly to bottom quarks, i.e. our predictions are accurate to order O(αs3yb2)\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^3 y_b^2) . We calculate the various components needed to construct the NNLO contribution, including an independent calculation of the two-loop amplitudes. We compare our results for the two-loop amplitudes to an existing calculation finding agreement. We present multiple checks on our two-loop expression using the known infrared factorization properties as the emitted gluon becomes soft or collinear. We use our results to construct a Monte Carlo implementation of HbbjH \rightarrow b\overline{b}j and present jet rates and differential distributions in the Higgs rest frame using the Durham jet algorithm.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1904.08961,
  title  = {$H \rightarrow b\overline{b}j$ at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Accuracy},
  author = {Roberto Mondini and Ciaran Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08961},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

42 pages, 5 figures. v3: matches published version, attached supplementary file with two-loop amplitudes