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Higgs production in association with a single top quark at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-23 v2

Abstract

We present a detailed study of Higgs boson production in association with a single top quark at the LHC, at next-to-leading order accuracy in QCD. We consider total and differential cross sections, at the parton level as well as by matching short distance events to parton showers, for both t-channel and s-channel production. We provide predictions relevant for the LHC at 13 TeV together with a thorough evaluation of the residual uncertainties coming from scale variation, parton distributions, strong coupling constant and heavy quark masses. In addition, for t-channel production, we compare results as obtained in the 4-flavour and 5-flavour schemes, pinning down the most relevant differences between them. Finally, we study the sensitivity to a non-standard-model relative phase between the Higgs couplings to the top quark and to the weak bosons.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1504.00611,
  title  = {Higgs production in association with a single top quark at the LHC},
  author = {Federico Demartin and Fabio Maltoni and Kentarou Mawatari and Marco Zaro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.00611},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

16 pages, 14 figures, 5 tables; v2: version to appear in EPJC