Higgs Production with a Central Jet Veto at NNLL+NNLO
Carola F. Berger, Claudio Marcantonini, Iain W. Stewart, Frank, J.Tackmann, Wouter J. Waalewijn

TL;DR
This paper advances Higgs production analysis by systematically summing jet-veto logarithms at NNLL+NNLO order using beam thrust, improving theoretical precision for collider experiments.
Contribution
It introduces a novel method using beam thrust for jet vetoes, enabling higher-order summation of jet-veto logarithms in Higgs production calculations.
Findings
Achieves 15-20% scale uncertainty at NNLL+NNLO order.
Provides more accurate Higgs cross section estimates with jet vetoes.
Suggests larger uncertainties in current experimental bounds.
Abstract
A major ingredient in Higgs searches at the Tevatron and LHC is the elimination of backgrounds with jets. In current H -> WW -> lnulnu searches, jet algorithms are used to veto central jets to obtain a 0-jet sample, which is then analyzed to discover the Higgs signal. Imposing this tight jet veto induces large double logarithms which significantly modify the Higgs production cross section. These jet-veto logarithms are presently only accounted for at fixed order or with the leading-logarithmic summation from parton-shower Monte Carlos. Here we consider Higgs production with an inclusive event-shape variable for the jet veto, namely beam thrust Tau_cm, which has a close correspondence with a traditional p_T jet veto. Tau_cm allows us to systematically sum the large jet-veto logarithms to higher orders and to provide better estimates for theoretical uncertainties. We present results for…
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