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# W and Z/γ ∗ boson production in association with a bottom-antibottom pair

(Impact Factor: 6.11). 06/2011; 9(9). DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2011)061
Source: arXiv

ABSTRACT

We present a study of l\nu b\bar{b} and l+ l- b\bar{b} production at hadron
colliders. Our results, accurate to the next-to-leading order in QCD, are based
are given at both the parton level, and after the matching with the Herwig
event generator, achieved with aMC@NLO. We retain the complete dependence on
the bottom-quark mass, and include exactly all spin correlations of final-state
leptons. We discuss the cases of several observables at the LHC which highlight
the importance of accurate simulations.

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• "[9] [10] [11]. W b ¯ b production is also available in NLO+partonshower (NLO+PS) event generators such as the POWHEG BOX [12] and MC@NLO [8]. "
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Journal of High Energy Physics 02/2015; 2015(4). DOI:10.1007/JHEP04(2015)161 · 6.11 Impact Factor
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• "Finally, all terms of O(α 4 S ) have been ignored here; note that at least those proportional to y 2 t are usually seen as NNLO contributions to the gluon-fusion cross section. The fully automated MadGraph5 aMC@NLO [27] program can handle 4FS b ¯ bH production rather straightforwardly – the calculation is of a complexity similar to that of Zb ¯ b production, which could be studied [46] even with a version of the code much less powerful than the present one. However, the default treatment of Yukawa couplings in the code is that of an on-shell scheme renormalisation, which is not optimal in the case of b ¯ bH production, where the MS scheme has to be preferred [47]. "
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ABSTRACT: We study the production of a Higgs boson in association with bottom quarks in hadronic collisions, and present phenomenological predictions relevant to the 13 TeV LHC. Our results are accurate to the next-to-leading order in QCD, and matched to parton showers through the MC@NLO method; thus, they are fully differential and based on unweighted events, which we shower by using both Herwig++ and Pythia8. We perform the computation in both the four-flavour and the five-flavour schemes, whose results we compare extensively at the level of exclusive observables. In the case of the Higgs transverse momentum, we also consider the analytically-resummed cross section up to the NNLO+NNLL accuracy. In addition, we analyse at ${\cal O}(\alpha_S^3)$ the effects of the interference between the $b\bar{b}H$ and gluon-fusion production modes.
Journal of High Energy Physics 09/2014; 2015(2). DOI:10.1007/JHEP02(2015)132 · 6.11 Impact Factor
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• "Full particle-level predictions have existed at LO for some time, obtained by matching parton shower generators to LO multi-leg matrix elements in the 4FNS [5] [6], 5FNS [7], or both [8]. More recently, a full particle-level prediction for Z+ ≥ 2 b-jets at NLO in the 4FNS with matched parton shower has become available [9] [10]. The same framework can also be used to provide a full particle-level prediction for Z+ ≥ 1 b-jet at NLO in the 5FNS. "
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ABSTRACT: Measurements of differential production cross-sections of a $Z$ boson in association with $b$-jets in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV are reported. The data analysed correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.6~fb$^{-1}$ recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Particle-level cross-sections are determined for events with a $Z$ boson decaying into an electron or muon pair, and containing $b$-jets. For events with at least one $b$-jet, the cross-section is presented as a function of the $Z$ boson transverse momentum and rapidity, together with the inclusive $b$-jet cross-section as a function of $b$-jet transverse momentum, rapidity and angular separations between the $b$-jet and the $Z$ boson. For events with at least two $b$-jets, the cross-section is determined as a function of the invariant mass and angular separation of the two highest transverse momentum $b$-jets, and as a function of the $Z$ boson transverse momentum and rapidity. Results are compared to leading-order and next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations.