تقرير
Associated production of a $W$ boson and massive bottom quarks at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD
| العنوان: | Associated production of a $W$ boson and massive bottom quarks at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD |
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| المؤلفون: | Buonocore, Luca, Devoto, Simone, Kallweit, Stefan, Mazzitelli, Javier, Rottoli, Luca, Savoini, Chiara |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| الوصف: | We present the first calculation for the hadroproduction of a $W$ boson in association with a massive bottom ($b$) quark-antiquark pair at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. We exploit the hierarchy between the $b$ quark mass and the characteristic energy scale of the process to obtain a reliable analytic expression for the two-loop virtual amplitude with three massive legs, starting from the corresponding result available for massless bottom quarks. The use of massive $b$ quarks avoids the ambiguities associated with the correct flavour assignment in massless calculations, paving the way to a more realistic comparison with experimental data. We present phenomenological results considering proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=13.6$ TeV for inclusive $Wb \bar b$ production and within a fiducial region relevant for the associated production of a $W$ boson and a Higgs boson decaying into a $b \bar b$ pair, for which $Wb \bar b$ production represents one of the most relevant backgrounds. We find that the NNLO corrections are substantial and that their inclusion is mandatory to obtain reliable predictions. Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. Final version published in PRD |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.074032 |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04954 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2212.04954 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.074032 |
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