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Squaring loops
I H E P S e m i n a r 2 0 1 5
N o v e m b e r 2 0
Valent in H irsch iin collaborat ion w i th
Ol iv i er Mattelaer
in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO
[ a r x i v : 1 5 0 7 . 0 0 0 2 0 ]
Valentin Hirschi, SLAC Squaring loops 20.11.2015IHEP
outline
• The challenges of computing loop-induced matrix-elements.
• How does MadEvent now integrate them.
• Validation and applications in Higgs physics.
Valentin Hirschi, SLAC Squaring loops 20.11.2015IHEP
Loop-induced: Motivation
• Can you compute this loop-induced process with MG5_aMC?
Valentin Hirschi, SLAC Squaring loops 20.11.2015IHEP
Loop-induced: Motivation
• Can you compute this loop-induced process with MG5_aMC?
• Well... no, but MadLoop can give you the loop ME’s!
Valentin Hirschi, SLAC Squaring loops 20.11.2015IHEP
Loop-induced: Motivation
• Can you compute this loop-induced process with MG5_aMC?
• Well... no, but MadLoop can give you the loop ME’s!
• How does that help me?
Valentin Hirschi, SLAC Squaring loops 20.11.2015IHEP
Loop-induced: Motivation
• Can you compute this loop-induced process with MG5_aMC?
• Well... no, but MadLoop can give you the loop ME’s!
• How does that help me?
• It... does not.
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Loop-induced: Motivation
• Can you compute this loop-induced process with MG5_aMC?
• Well... no, but MadLoop can give you the loop ME’s!
• How does that help me?
• It... does not.
There is a wide range of interest for loop-induced processes, but no automated efficient way of integrating them.
Need to bring a definitive solution to this.
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What is different with Loop-induced (LI) ?
�NLO =
Z
md(d)�V +
Valentin Hirschi, SLAC Squaring loops 20.11.2015IHEP
What is different with Loop-induced (LI) ?
�NLO =
Z
md(d)�V +
Z
m+1d(d)�R+
Valentin Hirschi, SLAC Squaring loops 20.11.2015IHEP
What is different with Loop-induced (LI) ?
�NLO =
Z
md(d)�V +
Z
m+1d(d)�R+
Z
md(4)�B
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What is different with Loop-induced (LI) ?
�NLO =
Z
md(d)�V +
Z
m+1d(d)�R+
Z
md(4)�B
�LI = =
Z
md(d)
���A(1)���2
2
MNLO,virt ⇠ A(loop)U |non-R2B?
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How NLO ME’s are computed?
=X
colour
X
h=1,H
0
@X
l=1,L
�(1)
l
Zdd ¯
Nh,l(`)Qml�1
i=0
Di,l
1
A
0
@X
b=1,B
�(0)
b Bh,b
1
A?
MNLO,virt ⇠ A(loop)U |non-R2B?
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How NLO ME’s are computed?
=X
h=1,H
X
l=1,L
X
b=1,B
Red
"Zdd ¯
Nh,l(`)Qml�1i=0 Di,l
#⇤lbB?
h,b
=X
colour
X
h=1,H
0
@X
l=1,L
�(1)
l
Zdd ¯
Nh,l(`)Qml�1
i=0
Di,l
1
A
0
@X
b=1,B
�(0)
b Bh,b
1
A?
MNLO,virt ⇠ A(loop)U |non-R2B?
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How NLO ME’s are computed?
=X
h=1,H
X
l=1,L
X
b=1,B
Red
"Zdd ¯
Nh,l(`)Qml�1i=0 Di,l
#⇤lbB?
h,b
=X
colour
X
h=1,H
0
@X
l=1,L
�(1)
l
Zdd ¯
Nh,l(`)Qml�1
i=0
Di,l
1
A
0
@X
b=1,B
�(0)
b Bh,b
1
A?
MNLO,virt ⇠ A(loop)U |non-R2B?
=X
t=1,T
Red
"Zdd ¯
Ph
Pl2t
Pb Nh,l(`)⇤lbB?
h,bQmt�1i=0 Di,t
#
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How NLO ME’s are computed?
MLI =��ALI
��2 =��ALI
non-R2
��2 + 2<�ALI
non-R2ALI⇤
R2
�+��ALI
R2
��2
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How loop-Induced ME’s are computed
��ALInon-R2
��2 =X
color
X
h=1,H
0
@X
l1=1,L
�l1
Zdd ¯
Nh,l1(`)Qml1�1
i=0
Di,l1
1
A
·
0
@X
l2=1,L
�l2
Zdd ¯
Nh,l2(`)Qml2�1
i=0
Di,l2
1
A?
MLI =��ALI
��2 =��ALI
non-R2
��2 + 2<�ALI
non-R2ALI⇤
R2
�+��ALI
R2
��2
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How loop-Induced ME’s are computed
��ALInon-R2
��2 =X
color
X
h=1,H
0
@X
l1=1,L
�l1
Zdd ¯
Nh,l1(`)Qml1�1
i=0
Di,l1
1
A
·
0
@X
l2=1,L
�l2
Zdd ¯
Nh,l2(`)Qml2�1
i=0
Di,l2
1
A?
MLI =��ALI
��2 =��ALI
non-R2
��2 + 2<�ALI
non-R2ALI⇤
R2
�+��ALI
R2
��2
=X
h=1,H
X
l1=1,L
X
l2=1,L
0
BBBBB@Red
"Nh,l1(`)Qml1�1
i=0
Di,l1
#Red
"Nh,l2(`)Qml2�1
i=0
Di,l2
#⇤ X
color
�l1�⇤l2
| {z }⇤l1,l2
1
CCCCCA
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How loop-Induced ME’s are computed
MLI �X
h=1,H
X
l1=1,L
X
l2=1,L
0
BBBBB@Red
"Nh,l1(`)Qml1�1
i=0
Di,l1
#Red
"Nh,l2(`)Qml2�1
i=0
Di,l2
#⇤ X
color
�l1�⇤l2
| {z }⇤l1,l2
1
CCCCCA
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How loop-Induced ME’s are computed
• A) For a given helicity, the number of terms in this squaring is: ‘L×L’ (It was ‘L×B’ for NLO MEs)
• B) Impossible to do reduction at the squared amplitude level in this case. The number of calls to Red[] scales like ‘L×H’ (It was ‘T’ for NLO MEs)
0
@MNLO,virt ⇠X
t=1,T
Red
"Zdd ¯
Ph
Pl2t
Pb Nh,l(`)⇤lbB?
h,bQmt�1i=0 Di,t
#1
A
��ALInon-R2
��2 =X
h=1,H
X
l1=1,L
X
l2=1,L
0
BBBBB@Red
"Nh,l1(`)Qml1�1
i=0
Di,l1
#Red
"Nh,l2(`)Qml2�1
i=0
Di,l2
#⇤ X
color
�l1�⇤l2
| {z }⇤l1,l2
1
CCCCCA
Valentin Hirschi, SLAC Squaring loops 20.11.2015IHEP
• A) The number of terms in this squaring is L⋅L (It was for L⋅B for NLO MEs).
��ALInon-R2
��2 =X
h=1,H
X
l1=1,L
X
l2=1,L
0
BBBBB@Red
"Nh,l1(`)Qml1�1
i=0
Di,l1
#Red
"Nh,l2(`)Qml2�1
i=0
Di,l2
#⇤ X
color
�l1�⇤l2
| {z }⇤l1,l2
1
CCCCCA
Valentin Hirschi, SLAC Squaring loops 20.11.2015IHEP
• A) The number of terms in this squaring is L⋅L (It was for L⋅B for NLO MEs).
�l =X
i=1,K
(�l ⌦ i)| {z }↵l,i
i.X
color
i⇤j = Kij
��ALInon-R2
��2 =X
h=1,H
X
i=1,K
X
j=1,K
�Ji,hJ
⇤j,hKi,j
�
Jj,h :=X
l=1,L
↵i,lLl,h
Ll,h := Red
"Nl,h(`)Qml�1
i=0
Di,l
#
Solution : Project onto color flows (i.e. use partial color amplitudes)
��ALInon-R2
��2 =X
h=1,H
X
l1=1,L
X
l2=1,L
0
BBBBB@Red
"Nh,l1(`)Qml1�1
i=0
Di,l1
#Red
"Nh,l2(`)Qml2�1
i=0
Di,l2
#⇤ X
color
�l1�⇤l2
| {z }⇤l1,l2
1
CCCCCA
Valentin Hirschi, SLAC Squaring loops 20.11.2015IHEP
• A) The number of terms in this squaring is L⋅L (It was for L⋅B for NLO MEs).
�l =X
i=1,K
(�l ⌦ i)| {z }↵l,i
i.X
color
i⇤j = Kij
��ALInon-R2
��2 =X
h=1,H
X
i=1,K
X
j=1,K
�Ji,hJ
⇤j,hKi,j
�
Jj,h :=X
l=1,L
↵i,lLl,h
Ll,h := Red
"Nl,h(`)Qml�1
i=0
Di,l
#
Solution : Project onto color flows (i.e. use partial color amplitudes)
More simply said, the projection onto the color-flow basis allows to turn
into
L1 · L1 + L1 · L2 + L1 · L3+
L2 · L1 + L2 · L2 + L2 · L3+
L3 · L1 + L3 · L2 + L3 · L3+
Hence trading 9 multiplications for1 multiplication and 6 additions!
(L1 + L2 + L3) · (L1 + L2 + L3)
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Additional perks of color flows
• Using NLO color partial amplitudes for SCET NLO hard functions.
• Necessary for event color assignation for loop-induced processes with MadEvent.
• Could be used in NLO matrix-element improved showers (a.k.a Vincia)
• In a matched computation when using a fixed-color ME generator such as COMIX for both reals AND subtraction terms, i.e. Monte Carlo over colors
• MadLoop keeps track of the factorized couplings in the partial color amplitudes, so that mixed expansions or interference computations are possible.
• In general, it increases MadLoop flexibility.
Ll,h := Red
"Nl,h(`)Qml�1i=0 Di,l
#
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Solution B1 : Perform MC over helicity config (and stick to OPP).
• B) Impossible to do reduction at the squared amplitude level in the LI case. The number of calls to Red[] scales like ‘L⋅H’ (It was ‘T’ for NLO MEs)
Ll,h := Red
"Nl,h(`)Qml�1i=0 Di,l
#
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Solution B1 : Perform MC over helicity config (and stick to OPP).
• B) Impossible to do reduction at the squared amplitude level in the LI case. The number of calls to Red[] scales like ‘L⋅H’ (It was ‘T’ for NLO MEs)
(T (r),µ
1
···µr ⌘Z
dd ¯`µ1 . . . `µr
Qmlt�1i=0 Di,lt
, C(r)µ1
...µr;h,l
)rmax
r=0
Solution B2 : Reduce with TIR whose inputs are independent on the helicity
The tensor coefficients must be computed once only and can then be recycled for all helicity configuration
Ll,h := Red
"Nl,h(`)Qml�1i=0 Di,l
#
Valentin Hirschi, SLAC Squaring loops 20.11.2015IHEP
Solution B1 : Perform MC over helicity config (and stick to OPP).
• B) Impossible to do reduction at the squared amplitude level in the LI case. The number of calls to Red[] scales like ‘L⋅H’ (It was ‘T’ for NLO MEs)
(T (r),µ
1
···µr ⌘Z
dd ¯`µ1 . . . `µr
Qmlt�1i=0 Di,lt
, C(r)µ1
...µr;h,l
)rmax
r=0
Solution B2 : Reduce with TIR whose inputs are independent on the helicity
The tensor coefficients must be computed once only and can then be recycled for all helicity configuration
• Which one is best? It depends on: A) How faster OPP is w.r.t. TIR. B) How good is the Monte-Carlo sampling over helicity configurations
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OPP vs TIR
• OPP with efficient MC over helicity configurations is the dominant approach.
Valentin Hirschi, SLAC Squaring loops 20.11.2015IHEP
OPP vs TIR
• OPP with efficient MC over helicity configurations is the dominant approach.
• The modern OPP reduction algorithms SAMURAI and NINJA now available too.
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enhanced parallelizationMadEvent
|M |2 =|M1|2
|M1|2 + |M2|2|M |2 + |M2|2
|M1|2 + |M2|2|M |2
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enhanced parallelizationMadEventZ
|M |2 =
Z |M1|2
|M1|2 + |M2|2|M |2 +
Z |M2|2
|M1|2 + |M2|2|M |2
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enhanced parallelizationMadEvent
•Iteration 1
•Grid Refinement
•Iteration 2
•Grid Refinement
•Iteration 1
•Grid Refinement
•Iteration 2
•Grid Refinement
Z|M |2 =
Z |M1|2
|M1|2 + |M2|2|M |2 +
Z |M2|2
|M1|2 + |M2|2|M |2
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enhanced parallelizationMadEvent
•Iteration 1
•Grid Refinement
•Iteration 2
•Grid Refinement
•Iteration 1
•Grid Refinement
•Iteration 2
•Grid Refinement
Z|M |2 =
Z |M1|2
|M1|2 + |M2|2|M |2 +
Z |M2|2
|M1|2 + |M2|2|M |2
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enhanced parallelization
14
New MadEvent
•Iteration 1
•Grid Refinement
•Iteration 2
•Grid Refinement
•Iteration 1
•Grid Refinement
•Iteration 2
•Grid Refinement
Z|M |2 =
Z |M1|2
|M1|2 + |M2|2|M |2 +
Z |M2|2
|M1|2 + |M2|2|M |2
Slide by O.Mattelaer.
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Simplest example
15
•generate g g > h [QCD]•output•launch
User Input
HEFT
Loop Induced
page 1/1
Diagrams made by MadGraph5_aMC@NLO
g
1
g
2
h 3
diagram 1 HIG=1, HIW=0, QCD=0, QED=0
�heft = 17.63(2)pb
page 1/1
Diagrams made by MadGraph5_aMC@NLO
b~
g
1
b
g2
b
h 3
diagram 1 QCD=2, QED=1
b
g
1
b~
g2
b~
h 3
diagram 2 QCD=2, QED=1
t~
g
1
t
g2
t
h 3
diagram 3 QCD=2, QED=1
t
g
1
t~
g2
t~
h 3
diagram 4 QCD=2, QED=1
page 1/1
Diagrams made by MadGraph5_aMC@NLO
b~
g
1
b
g2
b
h 3
diagram 1 QCD=2, QED=1
b
g
1
b~
g2
b~
h 3
diagram 2 QCD=2, QED=1
t~
g
1
t
g2
t
h 3
diagram 3 QCD=2, QED=1
t
g
1
t~
g2
t~
h 3
diagram 4 QCD=2, QED=1
�loop
= 15.74(2)pb
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Simplest example
15
•generate g g > h [QCD]•output•launch
User Input
HEFT
Loop Induced
No bottom loop
�toploop
= 17.65(2)pb
page 1/1
Diagrams made by MadGraph5_aMC@NLO
b~
g
1
b
g2
b
h 3
diagram 1 QCD=2, QED=1
b
g
1
b~
g2
b~
h 3
diagram 2 QCD=2, QED=1
t~
g
1
t
g2
t
h 3
diagram 3 QCD=2, QED=1
t
g
1
t~
g2
t~
h 3
diagram 4 QCD=2, QED=1
page 1/1
Diagrams made by MadGraph5_aMC@NLO
g
1
g
2
h 3
diagram 1 HIG=1, HIW=0, QCD=0, QED=0
�heft = 17.63(2)pb
page 1/1
Diagrams made by MadGraph5_aMC@NLO
b~
g
1
b
g2
b
h 3
diagram 1 QCD=2, QED=1
b
g
1
b~
g2
b~
h 3
diagram 2 QCD=2, QED=1
t~
g
1
t
g2
t
h 3
diagram 3 QCD=2, QED=1
t
g
1
t~
g2
t~
h 3
diagram 4 QCD=2, QED=1
page 1/1
Diagrams made by MadGraph5_aMC@NLO
b~
g
1
b
g2
b
h 3
diagram 1 QCD=2, QED=1
b
g
1
b~
g2
b~
h 3
diagram 2 QCD=2, QED=1
t~
g
1
t
g2
t
h 3
diagram 3 QCD=2, QED=1
t
g
1
t~
g2
t~
h 3
diagram 4 QCD=2, QED=1
�loop
= 15.74(2)pb
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Validation p p > h j
17
Important b-mass effects at low-pt but the expected naive rescaling at high-pt
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Matching / Merging
18
KT - MLM merging scheme
Qmatch = 50GeV
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BSM: Z+A/H
19
Exact Phase-Space integration
Reweighting (1503.01656)
gg ! Zh0 gg ! ZH0 gg ! ZA0
B1 113 +30%!21% 686 +30%
!22% 0.622 +32%!23%
B2 85.8 +30.1%!21% 1544 +30%
!22% 0.869 +34%!23%
B3 167 +31%!19% 0.891 +33%
!21% 1325 +28%!21%
Table 6: Cross sections (in fb) for gluon induced Z Higgs associated production at the LHC at"s = 14 TeV for three 2HDM benchmarks. The uncertainties (in percent) refer to scale variations.
No cuts are applied to final state particles and no Higgs or Z branching ratios are included.
to receive extremely large contributions from the resonance. This is in contrast with what
we have seen in light Higgs pair production where the resonant decay of the heavy Higgs
can lead to an enhancement of up to a factor of 60 for the gg ! h0h0 cross section [51].
The most interesting feature of Table 6, is the potential size of the cross section for the
ZH0 process. We find that this can exceed 1 pb when the pseudoscalar A0 is su!ciently
heavy to allow the resonant decay into the heavy Higgs and a Z. This has been noticed and
discussed recently in [78], as a signature for a cosmologically motivated 2HDM scenario. It
is remarkable that even if the production threshold lies significantly higher, this process can
lead to larger cross sections compared to the Zh0. This is possible as the relevant coupling,
ZH0A0, as shown in Table 5, is not suppressed by the “SM-like” light Higgs constraints.
Despite the fact that the prospects for discovery depend strongly on the resulting decay
products of the heavy Higgs, it is worth noting that even in the scenarios where H0 decays
predominantly into bb, the current experimental searches for ZH set a cut on the invariant
mass of the bb pair close to the light Higgs mass and would therefore miss this signal.
Finally, we note that the ZA0 production cross section remains very small in the scenarios
where the A0 is heavier than H0, but can reach the picobarn level in a scenario such as
benchmark B3, as a result of the inverted mass hierarchy.
Further interesting information on these processes can be extracted from the di"erential
distributions. For brevity we present only those for the invariant mass of the system and the
transverse momentum of the Higgs, but our setup is fully di"erential and any distribution
can be plotted. We show these in Fig. 12, for the cases in which the cross section is not
negligible. The results shown here are obtained with merged samples of 0 and 1-jet matched
to Pythia 8 for parton shower, in the same setup as that described in Section 2 for the
SM.
For the Zh0 final state we also show the SM prediction for comparison. Resonance
peaks arise in all scenarios for Zh0, each time located at the mass of the pseudoscalar
A0. The sharpness of the peak varies with the mass of A0, as heavier A0 have larger
widths going from 0.01 GeV for B3, to 7 GeV for B1 and 35 GeV in B2. We also notice
various interesting interference patterns, clearly visible for benchmarks B1 and B2. The
A0-mediated diagram interferes with the SM-like amplitude, with the interference switching
sign at"s = mA0 . Comparing scenarios B1 and B2, we see that the Zh0A0 couplings have
opposite signs and therefore in one case the dip appears right before the resonance peak,
– 20 –
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BSM: Z+A/H
19
Exact Phase-Space integration
Reweighting (1503.01656)
gg ! Zh0 gg ! ZH0 gg ! ZA0
B1 113 +30%!21% 686 +30%
!22% 0.622 +32%!23%
B2 85.8 +30.1%!21% 1544 +30%
!22% 0.869 +34%!23%
B3 167 +31%!19% 0.891 +33%
!21% 1325 +28%!21%
Table 6: Cross sections (in fb) for gluon induced Z Higgs associated production at the LHC at"s = 14 TeV for three 2HDM benchmarks. The uncertainties (in percent) refer to scale variations.
No cuts are applied to final state particles and no Higgs or Z branching ratios are included.
to receive extremely large contributions from the resonance. This is in contrast with what
we have seen in light Higgs pair production where the resonant decay of the heavy Higgs
can lead to an enhancement of up to a factor of 60 for the gg ! h0h0 cross section [51].
The most interesting feature of Table 6, is the potential size of the cross section for the
ZH0 process. We find that this can exceed 1 pb when the pseudoscalar A0 is su!ciently
heavy to allow the resonant decay into the heavy Higgs and a Z. This has been noticed and
discussed recently in [78], as a signature for a cosmologically motivated 2HDM scenario. It
is remarkable that even if the production threshold lies significantly higher, this process can
lead to larger cross sections compared to the Zh0. This is possible as the relevant coupling,
ZH0A0, as shown in Table 5, is not suppressed by the “SM-like” light Higgs constraints.
Despite the fact that the prospects for discovery depend strongly on the resulting decay
products of the heavy Higgs, it is worth noting that even in the scenarios where H0 decays
predominantly into bb, the current experimental searches for ZH set a cut on the invariant
mass of the bb pair close to the light Higgs mass and would therefore miss this signal.
Finally, we note that the ZA0 production cross section remains very small in the scenarios
where the A0 is heavier than H0, but can reach the picobarn level in a scenario such as
benchmark B3, as a result of the inverted mass hierarchy.
Further interesting information on these processes can be extracted from the di"erential
distributions. For brevity we present only those for the invariant mass of the system and the
transverse momentum of the Higgs, but our setup is fully di"erential and any distribution
can be plotted. We show these in Fig. 12, for the cases in which the cross section is not
negligible. The results shown here are obtained with merged samples of 0 and 1-jet matched
to Pythia 8 for parton shower, in the same setup as that described in Section 2 for the
SM.
For the Zh0 final state we also show the SM prediction for comparison. Resonance
peaks arise in all scenarios for Zh0, each time located at the mass of the pseudoscalar
A0. The sharpness of the peak varies with the mass of A0, as heavier A0 have larger
widths going from 0.01 GeV for B3, to 7 GeV for B1 and 35 GeV in B2. We also notice
various interesting interference patterns, clearly visible for benchmarks B1 and B2. The
A0-mediated diagram interferes with the SM-like amplitude, with the interference switching
sign at"s = mA0 . Comparing scenarios B1 and B2, we see that the Zh0A0 couplings have
opposite signs and therefore in one case the dip appears right before the resonance peak,
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Reweighting (1503.01656)
gg ! Zh0 gg ! ZH0 gg ! ZA0
B1 113 +30%!21% 686 +30%
!22% 0.622 +32%!23%
B2 85.8 +30.1%!21% 1544 +30%
!22% 0.869 +34%!23%
B3 167 +31%!19% 0.891 +33%
!21% 1325 +28%!21%
Table 6: Cross sections (in fb) for gluon induced Z Higgs associated production at the LHC at"s = 14 TeV for three 2HDM benchmarks. The uncertainties (in percent) refer to scale variations.
No cuts are applied to final state particles and no Higgs or Z branching ratios are included.
to receive extremely large contributions from the resonance. This is in contrast with what
we have seen in light Higgs pair production where the resonant decay of the heavy Higgs
can lead to an enhancement of up to a factor of 60 for the gg ! h0h0 cross section [51].
The most interesting feature of Table 6, is the potential size of the cross section for the
ZH0 process. We find that this can exceed 1 pb when the pseudoscalar A0 is su!ciently
heavy to allow the resonant decay into the heavy Higgs and a Z. This has been noticed and
discussed recently in [78], as a signature for a cosmologically motivated 2HDM scenario. It
is remarkable that even if the production threshold lies significantly higher, this process can
lead to larger cross sections compared to the Zh0. This is possible as the relevant coupling,
ZH0A0, as shown in Table 5, is not suppressed by the “SM-like” light Higgs constraints.
Despite the fact that the prospects for discovery depend strongly on the resulting decay
products of the heavy Higgs, it is worth noting that even in the scenarios where H0 decays
predominantly into bb, the current experimental searches for ZH set a cut on the invariant
mass of the bb pair close to the light Higgs mass and would therefore miss this signal.
Finally, we note that the ZA0 production cross section remains very small in the scenarios
where the A0 is heavier than H0, but can reach the picobarn level in a scenario such as
benchmark B3, as a result of the inverted mass hierarchy.
Further interesting information on these processes can be extracted from the di"erential
distributions. For brevity we present only those for the invariant mass of the system and the
transverse momentum of the Higgs, but our setup is fully di"erential and any distribution
can be plotted. We show these in Fig. 12, for the cases in which the cross section is not
negligible. The results shown here are obtained with merged samples of 0 and 1-jet matched
to Pythia 8 for parton shower, in the same setup as that described in Section 2 for the
SM.
For the Zh0 final state we also show the SM prediction for comparison. Resonance
peaks arise in all scenarios for Zh0, each time located at the mass of the pseudoscalar
A0. The sharpness of the peak varies with the mass of A0, as heavier A0 have larger
widths going from 0.01 GeV for B3, to 7 GeV for B1 and 35 GeV in B2. We also notice
various interesting interference patterns, clearly visible for benchmarks B1 and B2. The
A0-mediated diagram interferes with the SM-like amplitude, with the interference switching
sign at"s = mA0 . Comparing scenarios B1 and B2, we see that the Zh0A0 couplings have
opposite signs and therefore in one case the dip appears right before the resonance peak,
– 20 –
[ Also another independent cross-check against g g > z z with MadLoop+Sherpa ]
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SM Tables (I)
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SM Tables (II)
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: Computed here for the first time.
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SM Tables (III)
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†? : Not publicly available.
: Computed here for the first time.
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SM Tables (IV)
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†? : Not publicly available.
: Computed here for the first time.
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SM Tables (V)
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[ Implementation for decays is inefficient for now, but sufficient for most relevant decays ]
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: Computed here for the first time.
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Take-home message
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• Direct loop-induced process simulation with MG5_aMC@NLO finalized:• 2 > 2 on a laptop• 2 > 3 on a small size cluster• 2 > 4 case-by-case but typically requires a large size cluster
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• Direct loop-induced process simulation with MG5_aMC@NLO finalized:• 2 > 2 on a laptop• 2 > 3 on a small size cluster• 2 > 4 case-by-case but typically requires a large size cluster
• Thanks to an efficient MC over helicity, OPP is competitive for loop-induced processes. TIR remains however a great stability rescue mechanism.
Valentin Hirschi, SLAC Squaring loops 20.11.2015IHEP
Take-home message
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• Direct loop-induced process simulation with MG5_aMC@NLO finalized:• 2 > 2 on a laptop• 2 > 3 on a small size cluster• 2 > 4 case-by-case but typically requires a large size cluster
• Thanks to an efficient MC over helicity, OPP is competitive for loop-induced processes. TIR remains however a great stability rescue mechanism.
• BSM-flexible and readily available on https://launchpad.net/mg5amcnlo