Simulating b-associated production of Z and Higgs bosons with the SHERPA event generator

Krauss, Frank; Napoletano, Davide; Schumann, Steffen

doi:10.1103/physrevd.95.036012

Simulating b-associated production of Z and Higgs bosons with the SHERPA event generator

Krauss, Frank; Napoletano, Davide; Schumann, Steffen

Authors

Professor Frank Krauss frank.krauss@durham.ac.uk
Royal Society Wolfson Fellow

Davide Napoletano

Steffen Schumann

Abstract

We compare four- and five-flavor scheme predictions for b-associated production of Z and Higgs bosons. The results are obtained with SHERPA ’s MC@NLO implementation for the four-flavor scheme, treating the b’s as massive, and with multijet merging at leading and next-to-leading order for the fiveflavor schemes. Comparison with data for Z þ bðb¯Þ production at the 7 TeV LHC exhibits strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches and is used to validate predictions for b-associated Higgs-boson production at the 13 TeV Run II.

Citation

Krauss, F., Napoletano, D., & Schumann, S. (2017). Simulating b-associated production of Z and Higgs bosons with the SHERPA event generator. Physical Review D, 95(3), Article 036012. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.95.036012

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Jan 30, 2017
Online Publication Date	Feb 16, 2017
Publication Date	Feb 16, 2017
Deposit Date	Feb 20, 2017
Publicly Available Date	Feb 22, 2017
Journal	Physical Review D
Print ISSN	2470-0010
Electronic ISSN	2470-0029
Publisher	American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	95
Issue	3
Article Number	036012
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.95.036012
Related Public URLs	http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1612.04640

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