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Report number	arXiv:1804.07632 ; IPPP-18-27 ; IPPP/18/27 ; CERN-TH-2018-089 ; TTP-18-016
Title	Bottom-quark effects in Higgs production at intermediate transverse momentum
Author(s)	Caola, Fabrizio (Durham U., IPPP) ; Lindert, Jonas M. (Durham U., IPPP) ; Melnikov, Kirill (KIT, Karlsruhe, TTP) ; Monni, Pier Francesco (CERN) ; Tancredi, Lorenzo (CERN) ; Wever, Christopher (KIT, Karlsruhe, TTP ; KIT, Karlsruhe, IKP)
Publication	2018-09-07
Imprint	2018-04-20
Number of pages	28
Note	28 pages, 7 figures; version published in JHEP
In:	JHEP 1809 (2018) 035
DOI	10.1007/JHEP09(2018)035
Subject category	hep-ex ; Particle Physics - Experiment ; hep-ph ; Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract	We provide a precise description of the Higgs boson transverse momentum distribution including top and bottom quark contributions, that is valid for transverse momenta in the range mb < pt < mt, where mb and mt are the bottom and top quark masses. This description is based on a combination of fixed next-to-leading order (NLO) results with next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) transverse momentum resummation. We show that ambiguities in the resummation procedure for the b-quark loops are of the same order as the related fixed-order uncertainties. We conclude that the current uncertainty in the top-bottom interference contribution to the Higgs transverse momentum spectrum is O(20%).
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