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NLO QCD+EW predictions for HV and HV +jet production including parton-shower effects

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posted on 2023-06-10, 05:13 authored by F Granata, Jonas LindertJonas Lindert, C Oleari, S Pozzorini
We present the first NLO QCD+EW predictions for Higgs boson production in association with a l?l or l+l- pair plus zero or one jets at the LHC. Fixed-order NLO QCD+EW calculations are combined with a QCD+QED parton shower using the recently developed resonance-aware method in the POWHEG framework. Moreover., applying the improved MiNLO technique to Hl?l +jet and Hl+l- +jet production at NLO QCD+EW, we obtain predictions that are NLO accurate for observables with both zero or one resolved jet. This approach permits also to capture higher-order effects associated with the interplay of EW corrections and QCD radiation. The behavior of EW corrections is studied for various kinematic distributions, relevant for experimental analyses of Higgsstrahlung processes at the 13 TeV LHC. Exact NLO EW corrections are complemented with approximate analytic formulae that account for the leading and next-to-leading Sudakov logarithms in the high-energy regime. In the tails of transverse-momentum distributions, relevant for analyses in the boosted Higgs regime, the Sudakov approximation works well, and NLO EW effects can largely exceed the ten percent level. Our predictions are based on the POWHEG BOX RES+OpenLoops framework in combination with the Pythia 8.1 parton shower.

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Journal of High Energy Physics

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1126-6708

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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2017

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a12 1-55

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2022-10-25

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2022-10-25

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2022-10-23

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