27 August 2017 to 1 September 2017
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Top-bottom interference effects in Higgs boson production

28 Aug 2017, 17:00
30m
F15-16

F15-16

Higgs physics and searches Higgs physics and searches

Speaker

Chris Wever (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Description

"The study of Higgs boson properties form an important part of the LHC program. These studies are not only important for a better understanding of electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism but also for BSM searches. For example, most recently a strategy has been proposed to use LHC measurements of the Higgs transverse momentum distribution to constrain the Yukawa couplings of light-generation quarks to the Higgs boson. In this talk I will present the calculation of NLO QCD corrections of the top-bottom interference contribution to Higgs plus jet production at the LHC. The calculation involved computing two-loop Feynman integrals expanded in a small bottom mass, which we performed with the differential equation method and that I will elaborate upon. I will also show our results for the NLO top-bottom interference contribution to the Higgs transverse momentum distribution.”

Primary authors

Jonas Lindert Kirill Melnikov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Lorenzo Tancredi (KIT Karlsruhe) Chris Wever (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

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