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Improved description of charged Higgs boson production at hadron colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-01-27 v2

Abstract

We present a new method for matching the two twin-processes gb->H+/-t and gg->H+/-tb in Monte Carlo event generators. The matching is done by defining a double-counting term, which is used to generate events that are subtracted from the sum of these two twin-processes. In this way we get a smooth transition between the collinear region of phase space, which is best described by gb->H+/-t, and the hard region, which requires the use of the gg->H+/-tb process. The resulting differential distributions show large differences compared to both the gb-> H+/-t and gg->H+/-tb processes illustrating the necessity to use matching when tagging the accompanying b-jet.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0409094,
  title  = {Improved description of charged Higgs boson production at hadron colliders},
  author = {J. Alwall and J. Rathsman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0409094},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

21 pages, 9 figures. Revised with updated discussion and references