179 research outputs found
Top-quark mass effects in double and triple Higgs production in gluon-gluon fusion at NLO
The observation of double and triple scalar boson production at hadron
colliders could provide key information on the Higgs self couplings and the
potential. As for single Higgs production the largest rates for multiple Higgs
production come from gluon-gluon fusion processes mediated by a top-quark loop.
However, at variance with single Higgs production, top-quark mass and width
effects from the loops cannot be neglected. Computations including the exact
top-quark mass dependence are only available at the leading order, and
currently predictions at higher orders are obtained by means of approximations
based on the Higgs-gluon effective field theory (HEFT). In this work we present
a reweighting technique that, starting from events obtained via the MC@NLO
method in the HEFT, allows to exactly include the top-quark mass and width
effects coming from one- and two-loop amplitudes. We describe our approach and
apply it to double Higgs production at NLO in QCD, computing the needed
one-loop amplitudes and using approximations for the unknown two-loop ones. The
results are compared to other approaches used in the literature, arguing that
they provide more accurate predictions for distributions and for total rates as
well. As a novel application of our procedure we present predictions at NLO in
QCD for triple Higgs production at hadron colliders.Comment: 24 pages, 8 figure
Top-quark charge asymmetry and polarization in production at the LHC
We study the charge asymmetry between the and quark at the LHC,
when they are produced in association with a boson. Though sizably reducing
the cross section with respect to the inclusive production, requiring a
boson in the final state has two important implications. First, at leading
order in QCD, production can only occur via
annihilation. As a result, the asymmetry between the and generated
at NLO in QCD is significantly larger than that of inclusive
production, which is dominated by gluon fusion. Second, the top quarks tend to
inherit the polarization of the initial-state quarks as induced by the
-boson emission. Hence, the decay products of the top quarks display a
sizable asymmetry already at the leading order in QCD. We study the relevant
distributions and their uncertainties in the standard model, compare them to
those obtained in a simple axigluon model and discuss prospects for
measurements at the LHC and beyond.Comment: 11 pages (with figures), version accepted by PLB for publicatio
Higgs pair production at the LHC with NLO and parton-shower effects
We present predictions for the SM-Higgs-pair production channels of relevance
at the LHC: gluon-gluon fusion, VBF, and top-pair, W, Z and single-top
associated production. All these results are at the NLO accuracy in QCD, and
matched to parton showers by means of the MC@NLO method; hence, they are fully
differential. With the exception of the gluon-gluon fusion process, for which a
special treatment is needed in order to improve upon the infinite-top-mass
limit, our predictions are obtained in a fully automatic way within the
publicly available MadGraph5_aMC@NLO framework. We show that for all channels
in general, and for gluon-gluon fusion and top-pair associated production in
particular, NLO corrections reduce the theoretical uncertainties, and are
needed in order to arrive at reliable predictions for total rates as well as
for distributions.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, version accepted for publication on PL
Pengaruh Kadar Lempung dengan Kadar Air di Atas OMC terhadap Nilai CBR dengan dan tanpa Rendaman pada Tanah Lempung Organik
Strength and durability of road pavement depend on engineering properties of subgrade. However, soils used as subgrade may not satisfy the required quality. Peat or organic soils is not to advantage of construction because bearing capacity or value of peat soil's CBR is low. This paper intends to find out more about CBR value of organic soils on OMC and saturated condition . This research investigated the changes of CBR value with moisture content in the range of OMC to saturated. And influenced percentage varied of peat in mixture organic soils (clay and peat). The result of this study showed that for increasing of peat content reduce CBR values at OMC condition. CBR value in addition 10% of peat decreased CBR significantly to 2,88 % as compared to original soil (clay) is about 23,88%. And when compaction of soils with water content above OMC, incresing content of water reduce value of CBR
The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations
We discuss the theoretical bases that underpin the automation of the
computations of tree-level and next-to-leading order cross sections, of their
matching to parton shower simulations, and of the merging of matched samples
that differ by light-parton multiplicities. We present a computer program,
MadGraph5_aMC@NLO, capable of handling all these computations -- parton-level
fixed order, shower-matched, merged -- in a unified framework whose defining
features are flexibility, high level of parallelisation, and human intervention
limited to input physics quantities. We demonstrate the potential of the
program by presenting selected phenomenological applications relevant to the
LHC and to a 1-TeV collider. While next-to-leading order results are
restricted to QCD corrections to SM processes in the first public version, we
show that from the user viewpoint no changes have to be expected in the case of
corrections due to any given renormalisable Lagrangian, and that the
implementation of these are well under way.Comment: 158 pages, 27 figures; a few references have been adde
Model-independent extraction of matrix elements from top-quark measurements at hadron colliders
Current methods to extract the quark-mixing matrix element from
single-top production measurements assume that : top quarks decay into quarks with 100% branching fraction,
s-channel single-top production is always accompanied by a quark and
initial-state contributions from and quarks in the -channel
production of single top quarks are neglected. Triggered by a recent
measurement of the ratio
performed by the D0 collaboration, we consider a extraction method
that takes into account non zero d- and s-quark contributions both in
production and decay. We propose a strategy that allows to extract consistently
and in a model-independent way the quark mixing matrix elements ,
, and from the measurement of and from single-top
measured event yields. As an illustration, we apply our method to the Tevatron
data using a CDF analysis of the measured single-top event yield with two jets
in the final state one of which is identified as a -quark jet. We constrain
the matrix elements within a four-generation scenario by combining
the results with those obtained from direct measurements in flavor physics and
determine the preferred range for the top-quark decay width within different
scenarios.Comment: 36 pages, 17 figure
Potencial do eucalipto para produção de energia e sequestro de carbono na região noroeste do Paraná, Brasil.
Resumo bilíngue port./ing
Les Houches 2015: Physics at TeV Colliders Standard Model Working Group Report
This Report summarizes the proceedings of the 2015 Les Houches workshop on
Physics at TeV Colliders. Session 1 dealt with (I) new developments relevant
for high precision Standard Model calculations, (II) the new PDF4LHC parton
distributions, (III) issues in the theoretical description of the production of
Standard Model Higgs bosons and how to relate experimental measurements, (IV) a
host of phenomenological studies essential for comparing LHC data from Run I
with theoretical predictions and projections for future measurements in Run II,
and (V) new developments in Monte Carlo event generators.Comment: Proceedings of the Standard Model Working Group of the 2015 Les
Houches Workshop, Physics at TeV Colliders, Les Houches 1-19 June 2015. 227
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Community-curated and standardised metadata of published ancient metagenomic samples with AncientMetagenomeDir
Ancient DNA and RNA are valuable data sources for a wide range of disciplines. Within the field of ancient metagenomics, the number of published genetic datasets has risen dramatically in recent years, and tracking this data for reuse is particularly important for large-scale ecological and evolutionary studies of individual taxa and communities of both microbes and eukaryotes. AncientMetagenomeDir (archived at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3980833) is a collection of annotated metagenomic sample lists derived from published studies that provide basic, standardised metadata and accession numbers to allow rapid data retrieval from online repositories. These tables are community-curated and span multiple sub-disciplines to ensure adequate breadth and consensus in metadata definitions, as well as longevity of the database. Internal guidelines and automated checks facilitate compatibility with established sequence-read archives and term-ontologies, and ensure consistency and interoperability for future meta-analyses. This collection will also assist in standardising metadata reporting for future ancient metagenomic studies
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