The high-energy QCD dynamics from Higgs-plus-jet correlations at the FCC

TL;DR

This paper presents novel predictions for Higgs-plus-jet correlations at the FCC, emphasizing the importance of high-energy resummation for accurate QCD descriptions relevant to future collider physics.

Contribution

It introduces NLL accuracy energy-logarithmic resummation predictions for Higgs-plus-jet distributions at FCC energies, highlighting the significance of small-x physics.

Findings

High-energy signals are visible at current LHC energies.

Resummation corrections reach 10% at FCC energies.

Improved fixed-order calculations are crucial for precision Higgs physics.

Abstract

Recent analyses on high-energy inclusive Higgs-boson rates in proton collisions via the gluon-fusion channel, matched with the state of-the-art fixed-order N$^3$LO accuracy, have shown that the impact of high-energy resummation corrections reaches 10% at the FCC nominal energies. This supports the statement that electroweak physics at 100 TeV is expected to receive relevant contributions from small-$x$ physics. In this preliminary study we present novel predictions for transverse-momentum and rapidity distributions sensitive to the inclusive emission of a Higgs boson in association with a light-flavored jet in proton collisions, calculated within the NLL accuracy of the energy-logarithmic resummation. We highlight how high-energy signals for this process are already present and visible at current LHC energies, and they are also sizable at the FCC ones. We come out with the message that the improvement of fixed-order calculations on Higgs-sensitive QCD distributions is a core ingredient to reach the precision level in the description of observables relevant for the Higgs physics at the FCC.