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NLL+NNLO predictions for jet-veto efficiencies in Higgs-boson and Drell-Yan production

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Using the technology of the caesar approach to resummation, we examine the jet-veto efficiency in Higgs-boson and Drell-Yan production at hadron colliders and show that at next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accuracy the resummation reduces to just a Sudakov form factor. Matching with NNLO calculations results in stable predictions for the case of Drell-Yan production, but reveals substantial uncertainties in gluon-fusion Higgs production, connected in part with the poor behaviour of the perturbative series for the total cross section. We compare our results to those from powheg with and without reweighting by hqt, as used experimentally, and observe acceptable agreement. In an appendix we derive the part of the NNLL resummation corrections associated with the radius dependence of the jet algorithm.

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  1. Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany

    Andrea Banfi

  2. CERN, PH-TH, CH-1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    Gavin P. Salam

  3. Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, U.S.A.

    Gavin P. Salam

  4. LPTHE, CNRS UMR 7589, UPMC Univ. Paris 6, Paris, France

    Gavin P. Salam

  5. Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford, U.K.

    Giulia Zanderighi

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Banfi, A., Salam, G.P. & Zanderighi, G. NLL+NNLO predictions for jet-veto efficiencies in Higgs-boson and Drell-Yan production. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 159 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2012)159

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