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NLO Higgs+jet at large transverse momenta including top quark mass effects

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-09-27 v1

Abstract

We present a next-to-leading order calculation of H+jet in gluon fusion including the effect of a finite top quark mass mtm_t at large transverse momenta. Using the recently published two-loop amplitudes in the high energy expansion and our previous setup that includes finite mtm_t effects in a low energy expansion, we are able to obtain mtm_t-finite results for transverse momenta below 225 GeV and above 500 GeV with negligible remaining top quark mass uncertainty. The only remaining region that has to rely on the common leading order rescaling approach is the threshold region s^2mt\sqrt{\hat s}\simeq 2m_t. We demonstrate that this rescaling provides an excellent approximation in the high pTp_T region. Our calculation settles the issue of top quark mass effects at large transverse momenta. It is implemented in the parton level Monte Carlo code MCFM and is publicly available immediately in version 8.2.

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@article{arxiv.1802.02981,
  title  = {NLO Higgs+jet at large transverse momenta including top quark mass effects},
  author = {Tobias Neumann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.02981},
  year   = {2018}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures