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Small-$p_T$ and large-$x$ regions for Higgs transverse momentum distributions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-09-09 v1

Abstract

It was shown recently that standard resummation of logarithms of Q/pTQ/p_T can be supplemented with the resummation of logarithmic contributions at large x=Q2/sx=Q^2/s in the case of a colourless final state such as Higgs produced via gluon fusion or the production of a lepton pair via Drell--Yan mechanism. Such an improved transverse momentum resummation takes into account soft emissions that are emitted at very small angles. We report on recent phenomenological studies of a combined threshold-improved pTp_T and threshold resummation formalism to the Higgs boson produced at the LHC where small-pTp_T and threshold logarithms are resummed up to NNLL and NNLL* respectively. We show that the effect of the modified pTp_T resummation yields a faster perturbative convergence in the small-pTp_T region while the effect of the threshold one improves the agreement with fixed-order calculations in the medium and large-pTp_T regions.

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@article{arxiv.2011.13842,
  title  = {Small-$p_T$ and large-$x$ regions for Higgs transverse momentum distributions},
  author = {Tanjona R. Rabemananjara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.13842},
  year   = {2021}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures