Refining the GENEVA method for Higgs boson production via gluon fusion

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In this work, we study the production of Higgs boson pairs at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD matched to parton showers, using the Geneva framework and working in the heavy-top-limit approximation. This includes the resummation of large logarithms of the zero-jettiness $$ \mathcal{T} $$ T 0 up to the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading-log accuracy. This process features an extremely large momentum transfer, which makes its study particularly relevant for matching schemes such as that employed in Geneva, where the resummation of a variable different from that used in the ordering of the parton shower is used. To further study this effect, we extend the original shower interface designed for Pythia8 to include other parton showers, such as Dire and Sherpa.

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Double Higgs production at NNLO interfaced to parton showers in GENEVA

Alioli

Billis

Broggio

et al. 2023

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Jettiness formulation of the MiNNLOPS method

Ebert,

Rottoli,

Wiesemann

et al. 2024

We present a new formulation of the MiNNLOPS method to match NNLO QCD calculations with parton showers by using jettiness as a resummation variable. The full derivation for colour-singlet processes is presented using 0-jettiness starting from the NNLL′ resummation formula. We show phenomenological results for Drell-Yan and Higgs-boson production at the LHC and compare our predictions to ATLAS and CMS data. Differences to the original MiNNLOPS formulation using the transverse momentum of the colour singlet as resummation variable are discussed. We further present a comparison of MiNNLOPS predictions with Geneva. Finally, we extend the formulation of the MiNNLOPS method to 1-jettiness which is applicable to processes with a colour singlet plus one jet in the final state.

NNLO+PS W+W− production using jet veto resummation at NNLL′

Gavardi,

Lim,

Alioli

et al. 2023

We construct a novel event generator for the process $$ pp\to {\ell}^{-}{\overline{\nu}}_{\ell }{\ell^{\prime}}^{+}{\nu}_{\ell^{\prime }} $$ pp → ℓ − ν ¯ ℓ ℓ ′ + ν ℓ ′ , which matches fixed-order predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order in the strong coupling to a parton shower program. The matching is achieved using the Geneva method, in this case exploiting a resummed calculation for the hardest jet transverse momentum at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy obtained via soft-collinear effective theory and implemented in the C++ library SCETlib. This choice of resolution variable ensures that the introduction of a jet veto, commonly used by experimental analyses to reject multi-jet background events, does not result in the appearance of unmitigated large logarithms for low veto scales before showering. After validating our partonic results against publicly available fixed order and resummed calculations, we compare our predictions to measurements taken at the ATLAS and CMS experiments, finding good agreement. This is the first NNLO+PS accurate event generator to use the hardest jet transverse momentum as a resolution variable.