scholarly journals Resummed predictions for hadronic Higgs boson decays

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Alioli ◽  
Alessandro Broggio ◽  
Alessandro Gavardi ◽  
Stefan Kallweit ◽  
Matthew A. Lim ◽  
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Abstract We present the NNLL′ resummed 2-jettiness distribution for decays of the Standard Model Higgs boson to a b$$ \overline{b} $$ b ¯ -quark pair and to gluons. The calculation exploits a factorisation formula derived using Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, in which large logarithms of the 2-jettiness are resummed by renormalisation group evolution of the hard, soft and jet contributions to the differential decay rate. We match the resummed predictions to the fixed-order NNLO result using the Geneva framework, extending the validity of the results to all values of the resolution variable and providing a fully exclusive NNLO event generator matched to the Pythia8 parton shower.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Cortina Gil ◽  
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A. Kleimenova ◽  
E. Minucci ◽  
S. Padolski ◽  
...  

Abstract The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS reports a study of a sample of 4 × 109 tagged π0 mesons from K+ → π+π0(γ), searching for the decay of the π0 to invisible particles. No signal is observed in excess of the expected background fluctuations. An upper limit of 4.4 × 10−9 is set on the branching ratio at 90% confidence level, improving on previous results by a factor of 60. This result can also be interpreted as a model- independent upper limit on the branching ratio for the decay K+ → π+X, where X is a particle escaping detection with mass in the range 0.110–0.155 GeV/c2 and rest lifetime greater than 100 ps. Model-dependent upper limits are obtained assuming X to be an axion-like particle with dominant fermion couplings or a dark scalar mixing with the Standard Model Higgs boson.


2021 ◽  
Vol 812 ◽  
pp. 135980
Author(s):  
G. Aad ◽  
B. Abbott ◽  
D.C. Abbott ◽  
A. Abed Abud ◽  
K. Abeling ◽  
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2001 ◽  
Vol 508 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 225-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Acciarri ◽  
P. Achard ◽  
O. Adriani ◽  
M. Aguilar-Benitez ◽  
J. Alcaraz ◽  
...  

1994 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eilam Gross ◽  
Bernd A. Kniehl ◽  
Gustavo Wolf

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Carena ◽  
Ian Low ◽  
Nausheen R. Shah ◽  
Carlos E. M. Wagner

1997 ◽  
Vol 411 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 373-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Acciarri ◽  
O Adriani ◽  
M Aguilar-Benitez ◽  
S Ahlen ◽  
J Alcaraz ◽  
...  

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