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2017

QCD Phenomenology

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Associated Production Of A Top Pair And A Z Boson At The Lhc To Nnll Accuracy, Alessandro Broggio, Andrea Ferroglia, Giovanni Ossola, Ben D. Pecjak, Ray D. Sameshimab Apr 2017

Associated Production Of A Top Pair And A Z Boson At The Lhc To Nnll Accuracy, Alessandro Broggio, Andrea Ferroglia, Giovanni Ossola, Ben D. Pecjak, Ray D. Sameshimab

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We study the resummation of soft gluon emission corrections to the production of a top-antitop pair in association with a Z boson at the Large Hadron Collider to next-to next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. By means of an in-house parton level Monte Carlo code we evaluate the resummation formula for the total cross section and several differential distributions at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV, and we match these calculations to next to-leading order results.


Nnll Resummation For The Associated Production Of A Top Pair And A Higgs Boson At The Lhc, Alessandro Broggio, Andrea Ferroglia, Ben D. Pecjak, Li Lin Yang Feb 2017

Nnll Resummation For The Associated Production Of A Top Pair And A Higgs Boson At The Lhc, Alessandro Broggio, Andrea Ferroglia, Ben D. Pecjak, Li Lin Yang

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We study the resummation of soft gluon emission corrections to the production of a top-antitop pair in association with a Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider. Starting from a soft-gluon resummation formula derived in previous work, we develop a bespoke parton-level Monte Carlo program which can be used to calculate the total cross section along with differential distributions. We use this tool to study the phenomenological impact of the resummation to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) accuracy, finding that these corrections increase the total cross section and the differential distributions with respect to NLO calculations of the same observables.