27–31 Oct 2025
Brown University
US/Eastern timezone

Understanding and reducing top-mass scheme uncertainty in Higgs pair production at high-energy

28 Oct 2025, 14:30
20m
Brown University

Brown University

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), 20 Washington Pl, Providence, RI 02903, United States
Higgs Potential, Di-Higgs, and Multi-Higgs Higgs Potential, Di-Higgs, and Multi-Higgs

Speaker

Robert Szafron (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Description

Precise predictions for double Higgs production are essential to probe the Higgs self-coupling at future colliders. A major source of theoretical uncertainty arises from the choice of the top-quark mass renormalization scheme, which strongly affects the predicted cross sections at high energy. In my talk, I will discuss the origin of these uncertainties and show that the mass effects follow a systematic, factorised pattern. This structure allows us to resum the dominant logarithmic contributions and substantially reduce the scheme dependence. The improved predictions provide a more reliable baseline for experimental studies of Higgs pair production and enhance the sensitivity to deviations from the Standard Model.

Author

Robert Szafron (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Presentation materials