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Hadronic Production of a Higgs Boson in Association with a Jet at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order
In this thesis the production of a Higgs boson in association with a hadronic jet at the Large Hadron Collider is studied using the effective interaction between the Higgs boson to gluons induced by a heavy quark. The Leading Order (LO), Next- to-Leading Order (NLO) and Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order (NNLO) perturbative QCD corrections are studied for all of the parton channels. The infrared (IR) diver- gent behaviour of the various contributions to the partonic cross section is regulated using the antenna subtraction formalism. This method has previously been used at NNLO in the calculation of three jets production in the e+e− annihilation and for the gluonic dijet production via proton collision. The research presented in this thesis extends the antenna formalism to include scattering processes in which the initial state parton changes its identity. All contributions to the pp → H+jet pro- cesses are calculated at LO, NLO and NNLO and numerically tested to demonstrate the convergence between the matrix elements and the antenna subtraction terms in the various unresolved limits. As an example of the phenomenological impact of this work, numerical results for the total and differential Higgs plus one jet cross sections are presented for the purely gluonic subprocesses
Recent progress in QCD at the LHC
Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics has experienced an impressive progress in
the last few years, boosted by the requirements of the LHC experimental
program. In this contribution, I briefly review a selection of recent results
in QCD and LHC phenomenology, covering progress in parton distribution
functions, automation of NLO calculations, merging and matching at NLO, new
calculations at NNLO accuracy and their matching to parton showers, and new
developments and techniques in jet physics and jet substructure tools.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the "Rencontres
de physique de la Vallee d'Aoste 2014" Conference, La Thuile, Italy, February
201
Standard Model physics at the LHC
In this contribution to the volume "From My Vast Repertoire -- The Legacy of
Guido Altarelli" I discuss selected topics of Standard Model (SM) physics at
the LHC and their connection to the work of Guido Altarelli. An overarching
connection is given by Guido's fundamental contributions to our understanding
of the strong force, parton distribution functions and their evolution, and
techniques to calculate theoretical predictions through perturbative Quantum
Chromodynamics. The increasingly precise LHC measurements of diverse processes
can be confronted with SM predictions relying on these foundations to test the
SM and contribute to the knowledge of the proton structure. The LHC experiments
have also started to perform precise measurements of SM parameters, such as the
mass of the W boson, and have measured a variety of processes sensitive to
interactions of multiple electroweak bosons. The discovery of the Higgs boson
in 2012 and the measurements of its properties are crucial to establish the
nature of the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking and the status of
these studies is summarised.Comment: Contribution to the volume "From my Vast Repertoire - the Legacy of
Guido Altarelli" : 24 pages, 13 figure
Higgs-differential cross section at NNLO in dimensional regularisation
We present an analytic computation of the Higgs production cross section in
the gluon fusion channel, which is differential in the components of the Higgs
momentum and inclusive in the associated partonic radiation through NNLO in
perturbative QCD. Our computation includes the necessary higher order terms in
the dimensional regulator beyond the finite part that are required for
renormalisation and collinear factorisation at NLO. We outline in detail
the computational methods which we employ. We present numerical predictions for
realistic final state observables, specifically distributions for the decay
products of the Higgs boson in the decay channel.Comment: 27 pages, 6 awesome figure
NLO QCD corrections for W^+W^- pair production in association with two jets at hadron colliders
We compute the NLO QCD corrections to the pair production of W-bosons in
association with two jets at the Tevatron and the LHC. This process is an
important background to heavy Higgs-boson production in association with two
jets, either in gluon or weak boson fusion. We consider leptonic decays of
W-bosons and include all the spin correlations exactly. For natural choices of
the renormalization scale, the NLO QCD corrections to pp(ppbar) -> W^+W^-jj are
moderate but different for various values of the center-of-mass collision
energy at the LHC and the Tevatron, emphasizing the need to compute them
explicitly.Comment: 28 pages, 12 figure
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