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Non commutativity between massless and soft limit in processes with heavy quarks

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-01-11 v1

Abstract

Processes involving heavy quarks can be computed in perturbation theory in two different ways: we can adopt a scheme in which the mass of the quark is considered only as a regulator of the collinear divergences because of the fact that the hard scale of the process is far bigger or we can consider the quark as a massive particle. Each picture has its own advantages and drawbacks: we investigate the differences between the two approaches with particular attention to the soft logarithmic structure. We examine the origin of this difference, focusing on different processes involving the Higgs boson . Finally we perform the threshold resummation of the Higgs boson decay rate into a bbˉb\bar{b} pair at NLL accuracy in the massive scheme.

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@article{arxiv.2301.03985,
  title  = {Non commutativity between massless and soft limit in processes with heavy quarks},
  author = {Andrea Ghira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.03985},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Conference proceeding for the workshop LFC22

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