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$t\bar{t}H$ production at NNLO: the flavour off-diagonal channels

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-08-03 v2

Abstract

We consider QCD radiative corrections to the associated production of a heavy-quark pair (QQˉQ{\bar Q}) with a generic colourless system FF at hadron colliders. We discuss the resummation formalism for the production of the QQˉFQ{\bar Q}F system at small values of its total transverse momentum qTq_T. The perturbative expansion of the resummation formula leads to the explicit ingredients that can be used to apply the qTq_T subtraction formalism to fixed-order calculations for this class of processes. We use the qTq_T subtraction formalism to perform a fully differential perturbative computation for the production of a top-antitop quark pair and a Higgs boson. At next-to-leading order we compare our results with those obtained with established subtraction methods and we find complete agreement. We present, for the first time, the results for the flavour off-diagonal partonic channels at the next-to-next-to-leading order.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2102.03256,
  title  = {$t\bar{t}H$ production at NNLO: the flavour off-diagonal channels},
  author = {Stefano Catani and Ignacio Fabre and Massimiliano Grazzini and Stefan Kallweit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.03256},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

22 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. References added. Version published on EPJC