Aug 4 – 8, 2015
America/Detroit timezone

Higgs Production at Extremely Large Transverse Momentum

Aug 7, 2015, 4:30 PM
30m
Kalamazoo (Michigan League)

Kalamazoo

Michigan League

Electroweak and Higgs Theory EWK and Higgs Sector

Speaker

Hong Zhang

Description

A future 100 TeV collider provides the opportunity to study the production of Higgs at large transverse momentum $p_T$. The effective field theory for Higgs, obtained by integrating out the top quark, breaks down when $p_T$ is larger than 200 GeV. We calculate the $p_T$ distribution at much larger $p_T$ using the framework of factorization, in which the cross section is expressed as convolutions of hard-scattering cross sections and fragmentation functions, with the leading logarithms of $p_T^2/m_t^2$ resummed to all orders. By separating the scales $m_t$ and $p_T$, the higher order radiative correction can be greatly simplified.
Oral or Poster Presentation Oral

Primary authors

Eric Braaten (Ohio State University) Hong Zhang

Presentation materials