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N$^3$LO+N$^3$LL QCD improved Higgs pair cross sections

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-02-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We report a new calculation of the soft-gluon threshold resummation for the Higgs boson pair production in the dominant production mode -- gluon-gluon fusion -- up to the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (N3^3LL) accuracy. After matching N3^3LL to the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3^3LO) QCD calculation in the infinite top quark mass approximation, we show that the central values of the inclusive cross sections are quite stable with respect to N3^3LO, while the conventional renormalisation and factorisation scale uncertainties are reduced by a factor of two, reaching to the subpercent level. Our study further consolidates the good asymptotic perturbative convergence. After combining with the full top-quark mass dependent next-to-leading order QCD results, our most advanced predictions are presented for both the inclusive total cross sections and the differential invariant mass distributions of the Higgs pair.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2209.03914,
  title  = {N$^3$LO+N$^3$LL QCD improved Higgs pair cross sections},
  author = {A. H. Ajjath and Hua-Sheng Shao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.03914},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

40 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. v2: journal version (minor corrections wrt v1)

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