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Page 1: Weak boson fusion at the Large Hadron Colliderpartsem/fy13/jaeger-bnl2012.pdf · the first hadron collider at the terascale Barbara Jager, October 2012¨ JGU Mainz weak boson fusion

Weak boson fusionat the Large Hadron Collider

Barbara J ager

Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz

Particle Physics Seminar

Brookhaven NationalLaboratory

October 2012

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what’s on the menu today?

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

weak vector boson fusion (VBF)

the appetizer: Higgs production

· signal topology

· backgrounds

· quantum corrections

main course: weak boson scattering

· precision calculations

· phenomenological results

· signatures of new physics

dessert:

· VBF and parton showers

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the standard model of elementary particles

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

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the standard model of elementary particles

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

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experimental bounds on the Higgs mass

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

information on the Higgsboson is obtained via

✦ indirect searches:Higgs boson affects variousobservables indirectly via

quantum corrections

✦ direct searches for explicitHiggs production in· e+e− collisions

· hadronic collisions

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indirect searches

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

Higgs boson affects electroweak precision data(e.g. gauge boson mass determination)

via quantum corrections

+

corrections proportional to lnM2

H

M2

Z

☞ constrain MH by precision data fromvarious experiments (LEP, SLC, CDF, D0):

MH . 161 GeV @ 95% CL[LEP EWWG, July 2011]

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Higgs couplings

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

gauge boson V fermion f self interaction

∝ MV∝ mf ∝ M2

H

coupling of the Higgs boson to any particleproportional to its mass

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direct search in electron-positron collisions

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

e−

e+

Z

Z

H

direct Higgs production

at the CERN-LEP e+e− collider

(c.m.s. energy√S . 209 GeV):

mainly via Higgs-strahlung

MH & 114 GeV

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the first hadron collider at the terascale

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

the Tevatron at Fermilab:

high energy synchrotron

with proton–anti-proton collisions

at c.m.s. energy√S ≃ 2 TeV

two major experiments:

CDF

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the Higgs at Tevatron?

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

combination of CDF & D0 searcheswith up to 10 fb−1 of data

(July 2, 2012):

excess with 2.9 σ inH → bb channels

b

b

ℓ+

ℓ−

H

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the world’s largest hadron collider . . .

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

. . . and its four major experiments . . .

CMS•

ATLAS•

ALICE•

LHCb •

Compact MuonSolenoid

A Large Ion ColliderExperiment

A Toroidal LHC Apparatus

LHC-beauty

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Spiegel Online, July 4, 2012

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status as of July 4, 2012

the ATLAS experiment reports theobservation of an excess of events

at a mass of 126.5 GeVwith local significance of 5.0 σ

the CMS experiment reports theobservation of a new boson

with a mass of125.3 ± 0.6 GeV

at 4.9 σ significance

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Higgs production @ LHC

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

[GeV] HM100 200 300 400 500 1000

H+

X)

[pb]

→(p

p σ

-210

-110

1

10= 7 TeVs

LH

C H

IGG

S X

S W

G 2

010

H (NNLO+NNLL QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

qqH (NNLO QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

WH (NNLO QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

ZH (NNLO QCD +NLO EW)

→pp

ttH (NLO QCD)

→pp

Higgs cross section working group

gluon fusion (GF)

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Higgs production @ LHC

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

[GeV] HM100 200 300 400 500 1000

H+

X)

[pb]

→(p

p σ

-210

-110

1

10= 7 TeVs

LH

C H

IGG

S X

S W

G 2

010

H (NNLO+NNLL QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

qqH (NNLO QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

WH (NNLO QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

ZH (NNLO QCD +NLO EW)

→pp

ttH (NLO QCD)

→pp

Higgs cross section working group

gluon fusion (GF)

ttH production

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Higgs production @ LHC

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

[GeV] HM100 200 300 400 500 1000

H+

X)

[pb]

→(p

p σ

-210

-110

1

10= 7 TeVs

LH

C H

IGG

S X

S W

G 2

010

H (NNLO+NNLL QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

qqH (NNLO QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

WH (NNLO QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

ZH (NNLO QCD +NLO EW)

→pp

ttH (NLO QCD)

→pp

Higgs cross section working group

gluon fusion (GF)

ttH production

vector boson fusion (VBF)

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Higgs production @ LHC

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

[GeV] HM100 200 300 400 500 1000

H+

X)

[pb]

→(p

p σ

-210

-110

1

10= 7 TeVs

LH

C H

IGG

S X

S W

G 2

010

H (NNLO+NNLL QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

qqH (NNLO QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

WH (NNLO QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

ZH (NNLO QCD +NLO EW)

→pp

ttH (NLO QCD)

→pp

Higgs cross section working group

gluon fusion (GF)

ttH production

W,Z bremsstrahlung

vector boson fusion (VBF)

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Higgs production @ LHC

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

[GeV] HM80 100 200 300 400 1000

H+

X)

[pb]

→(p

p σ

-210

-110

1

10

210= 8 TeVs

LH

C H

IGG

S X

S W

G 2

012

H (NNLO+NNLL QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

qqH (NNLO QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

WH (NNLO QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

ZH (NNLO QCD +NLO EW)

→pp

ttH (NLO QCD)

→pp

Higgs cross section working group

gluon fusion (GF)

ttH production

W,Z bremsstrahlung

vector boson fusion (VBF)

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Higgs production @ LHC

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

[GeV] HM100 200 300 400 500 1000

H+

X)

[pb]

→(p

p σ

-110

1

10

210= 14 TeVs

LH

C H

IGG

S X

S W

G 2

010

H (NNLO+NNLL QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

qqH (NNLO QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

WH (NNLO QCD + NLO EW)

→pp

ZH (NNLO QCD +NLO EW)

→pp

ttH (NLO QCD)

→pp

Higgs cross section working group

gluon fusion (GF)

ttH production

W,Z bremsstrahlung

vector boson fusion (VBF)

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weak vector boson fusion (VBF)

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

✦ important Higgs search channelover entire mass range

✦ sensitive to Higgs couplingsand CP properties

☞ accurate predictions andflexible tools essentialfor signal and backgrounds!

CMS & ATLAS:VBF selection included inH → γγ, H → WW ,

H → ττ

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VBF event topology

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

p

p

HZ,W

Z,W

jet

jet

suppressed color exchange between quark lines gives rise to

✦ little jet activity in central rapidity region

✦ scattered quarks → two forward tagging jets(energetic; large rapidity)

✦ Higgs decay products typically between tagging jets

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Higgs production in VBF @ NLO QCD

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

NLO QCD:inclusive cross section:Han, Valencia, Willenbrock (1992)

distributions:Figy, Oleari, Zeppenfeld (2003)

Berger, Campbell (2004)

NLO QCD correctionsmoderate

and well under control(order 10% or less)

publicly availableparton-level Monte Carlos:

vbfnloMCFM

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Higgs production in VBF @ NLO EW

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

QCDEW

EW+QCD

MH = 200GeV

pp → Hjj + X

pj1,T [GeV]

dσLO− 1 [%]

400350300250200150100500

10

5

0

−5

−10

−15

−20

−25

−30

−35

−40

publicly availableparton-level Monte Carlo

program: HAWK

Ciccolini, Denner, Dittmaier, Muck:

NLO EW corrections to inclusive cross sections and distributions

☞ NLO EW corrections non-negligible, modify K factors anddistort distributions by up to 10%

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SUSY QCD+EW corrections to VBF

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

0.001

0.01

0.1

1

1000 600 400 200 100

SPS1b LEP χ1±

m1/2 [GeV]

-∆σ/σ [%]

total (µ fixed)total (µ var)

Ο(αs) (µ fixed)

Hollik, Plehn, Rauch, Rzehak & Figy, Palmer, Weiglein (2008-2010):

SUSY QCD & EW corrections . 1%

for inclusive cross sections

in typical regions of the MSSM parameter space

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vbfnlo

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

vbfnlo is a fully flexible parton level Monte Carlo for processeswith electroweak bosons at NLO-QCD in the SM and beyond

it can simulate:

✦ various weak vector boson fusion processes

✦ double and triple weak boson production processes

✦ double weak boson production processesin association with a hard jet

✦ Higgs production via gluon fusionin association with two jets

http://www-itp.particle.uni-karlsruhe.de/∼vbfnloweb

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vbfnlo: features

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

✦ cross sections and distributions at NLO-QCD accuracy

✦ NLO-EW corrections to VBF Hjj production

✦ arbitrary selection cuts

✦ various choices for factorization and renormalization scales

✦ LO predictions for all processes with one extra jet

✦ interface to LHAPDF → any currently available PDF set

✦ LO: event files in Les Houches Accord (LHA) format

✦ MSSM: SUSY parameters input via standard SLHA file

✦ various BSM features:anomalous couplings, Kaluza-Klein models, . . .

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higher orders of QCD in VBF

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

Harlander, Vollinga, Weber (2007):

gauge invariant, finite sub-class of virtual

two-loop QCD corrections to pp → Hjj via VBF

gg → qqH, qq → ggH,qg → qgH, qg → qgH

important due to largegluon luminosity at LHC?

minimal set of cuts: σ2−loopgluon ∼ 2 % of σLO

VBF

VBF cuts: relative suppression by additional order of magnitude

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higher orders of QCD in VBF

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

Bolzoni, Maltoni, Moch, Zaro (2010,2011):

subset of the NNLO QCD contributionsto the total cross section for pp → Hjj via VBF

in the structure function approach1

V ∗

2

V ∗

1

P1

P2

X1

X2

q1

q2

µ

ρ

σ ∼∫

dPS1

2s

1(

Q21 + M2

V1

)2

1(

Q22 + M2

V2

)2

× Wµν

(

x1, Q21

)

AµρA∗νσWρσ

(

x2, Q22

)

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higher orders of QCD in VBF

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

σ (pb) at LHC√s = 7 TeV

scale choice:Q/4 ≤ µR,µF ≤ 4Q

LONLONNLO

10-1

1

10-1

1

σ(µR,µF)/σNNLO(Q)

0.70.80.9

11.11.21.31.4

100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500

mH(GeV)

✦ NNLO predictions arein full agreementwith NLO results

✦ residual scale uncertaintiesare reduced

from ∼4% to 2%

✦ NNLO PDF uncertaintiesare at the 2% level

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PDF uncertainties in VBF

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

CTEQ:

difference between setsσ6.1/σ6.6 . 4%

PDF uncertainty∆PDF . 3.5 %

for 100 GeV ≤ MH ≤ 800 GeV

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pp → Hjj via gluon fusion

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

VBF can be faked by double real corrections

to gg → H (“gluon fusion”)

✦ complete LO calculation (including pentagons) in the SMDel Duca, Kilgore, Oleari, Schmidt, Zeppenfeld (2001)

✦ and in a generic two-Higgs doublet model:Campanario, Kubocz, Zeppenfeld (2011)

✦ complementary: NLO QCD calculation in mt → ∞ limit:Campbell, Ellis, Zanderighi (2006)

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pp → Hjj via VBF×GF at tree level

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

can VBF×GF interference pollute the clean VBF signature?

Georg (2005) & Andersen, Smillie (2006):

tree-level interference possible only for

· neutral current graphs (no charged current interference)

· identical quark contributions with t ↔ u crossing(kinematically suppressed)

☞ completely negligible

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pp → Hjj via VBF×GF beyond tree level

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

additional gluon → VBF×GF interference for qq′ → qq′H ✔

Andersen et al. (2007)

Bredenstein, Hagiwara, B. J. (2008)

strong cancelation effects betweencontributions of different flavor

interaction cross section tiny → no effect on VBF signal

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VBF event topology

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

φθ1θ2

J1J2

p p

distinct event topology

of the Higgs signal in

pp → Hjj via VBF with

H → W+W− → e±µ∓/pT

☞ important for suppression of backgrounds

✦ tt + 0, 1, 2 jets production(note: tt → W+W−bb)

✦ QCD W+W−jj production

✦ EW W+W−jj production

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tt + jets backgrounds

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

b

b

t

tW−

W+

✦ large top productioncross section at the LHC

✦ t → Wb branching ratio ∼ 100%

✦ b quarks may be identifiedas tagging jets

✦ exploit kinematic featuresfor background suppression

NLO-QCD predictions available:Denner et al.; Bevilaqua et al. (2011-2012)

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EW V V jj production

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

irreducible background toVBF-induced Higgs production,

followed by decay into W bosons

pp → Hjj → W+W−jj

NLO-QCD predictions availableOleari, Zeppenfeld, B.J. (2006)

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angular distribution of charged leptons

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

Rainwater, Zeppenfeld (1999)

EW W+W−jj

QCD W+W−jj

Hjj via VBF, H→WW

tt+ jets

in H → W+W−: spins anti-correlated

leptons emitted preferentially in samedirection

no such correlation, if W bosonsdo not stem from the Higgs

Dittmar, Dreiner (1996)

distribution for EW W+W− productionsignificantly

different from Higgs signal

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QCD-induced V V jj production

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

QCD-induced W+W−jj productionconstitutes irreducible background to

pp → Hjj → W+W−jj

NLO-QCD predictions availableMelia, Melnikov, Rontsch, Zanderighi (2011);

Greiner et al. (2012)

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tagging jets: properties

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

rapidity separation of the tagging jets

jjη∆1 2 3 4 5 6 7

jjη∆/dσ

dσ1/

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

-310×

gluon fusionVBF

+Jetstt

QCD-WW

Klamke, Zeppenfeld (2007)

jets more central in QCD- than in EW-inducedproduction processes

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VBF signal / background analysis

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

☞ selection of signal and background rates

for MH = 160 GeV (in [fb])

in the H → e+µ−/pT decay mode at the LHC :

cuts Hjj tt+jets QCD WWjj EW WWjj . . . S / B

forward tagging 17.1 1080 4.4 3.0 . . . 1/65

+b veto 64 . . . 1/5.1

+angular cuts 11.4 5.1 0.50 0.45 . . . 1.7/1

+central jet veto 10.1 1.48 0.15 0.34 . . . 4.6/1

all cuts 7.5 1.09 0.11 0.25 . . . 4.6/1

Rainwater, Zeppenfeld (1999)

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central jet veto

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

central jet veto (CJV):

remove events with extra jet(s) in central-rapidity regionpvetoT

> 20 GeV, ηminjet

< ηvetojet

< ηmaxjet

cuts Hjj tt+jets QCD WWjj EW WWjj . . . S / B

forward tagging 17.1 1080 4.4 3.0 . . . 1/65

+b veto 64 . . . 1/5.1

+angular cuts 11.4 5.1 0.50 0.45 . . . 1.7/1

+central jet veto 10.1 1.48 0.15 0.34 . . . 4.6/1

all cuts 7.5 1.09 0.11 0.25 . . . 4.6/1

Rainwater, Zeppenfeld (1999)

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central jet veto

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

central jet veto (CJV):

remove events with extra jet(s) in central-rapidity region

pvetoT

> 20 GeV, ηminjet

< ηvetojet

< ηmaxjet

☞ precise knowledge of extra jet activity essential,requiring

✦ pp → Hjj interfaced to parton shower programs

✦ pp → Hjjj at NLO-QCD accuracy

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pp → Hjjj via VBF

JGU MainzBarbara Jager, October 2012 weak boson fusion at the LHC

Figy, Hankele, Zeppenfeld (2007)

✦ dominant NLO-QCD corrections modest

✦ scale uncertainties of CJV observables significantly reduced

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pp → Hjj via VBF and parton showers

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for realistic description ofscattering processes at hadron

colliders:

✦ combine matrix elements forhard scattering

with programs for simulation of

underlying event, partonshower, and hadronization

(Pythia, Herwig, Sherpa,...)

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pp → Hjj via VBF & parton showers @ LO

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rapidity separation of the third jet: y⋆ = y3 − 1

2(y1 + y2)

Hackstein et al. (2008)leading order:

no third jet from matrixelement for hard partonic

scattering

Pythia/ Herwig:

very different patterns infilling of rapidity gap by

parton shower

☞ better understanding andmodeling needed

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NLO-QCD vs. shower Monte Carlo

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NLO QCD:

✔ accurate shapes at high pT

✔ normalization accurate at NLO

✔ reduced scale dependence

✘ wrong shapes at low pT

✘ description only at parton level

LO SMC:

✘ bad description at high pT

✘ normalization accurate only at LO

✔ Sudakow suppression at low pT

✔ events at hadron level

☞ merge the two approaches, keeping the advantages of both:

· MC@NLO [Frixione, Webber]

· POWHEG [Nason et al.]

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parton showers & NLO-QCD: the POWHEG method

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general prescription for matching parton-level NLO-QCDcalculations with parton shower programs

[Frixione, Nason, Oleari]

✦ applicable to any pT -ordered parton shower program

✦ no double counting of real-emission contributions

✦ produces events with positive weights

✦ tools for “do-it-yourself” implementationpublicly available (the POWHEG-BOX)

[Alioli, Nason, Oleari, Re]

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parton showers & NLO-QCD: the POWHEG-BOX

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✘ user has to supply process-specific quantities:

✦ lists of flavor structures for Born and real emission processes

✦ Born phase space

✦ Born amplitudes squared, color-and spin-correlated amplitudes

✦ real-emission amplitudes squared

✦ finite part of the virtual corrections

✦ Born color structure in the limit of a large number of colors

✔ all general, process-independent aspects of the matchingare provided by the POWHEG-BOX

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parton showers & NLO-QCD: the POWHEG-BOX

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up-to-date info on the POWHEG-BOXand code download:

http://powhegbox.mib.infn.it/

VBF processes in the POWHEG-BOX:

✦ Higgs production via VBF [Oleari, Nason (2009)]

✦ Z-boson production via VBF [Schneider, Zanderighi, B.J. (2012)]

✦ W+W+ production via VBF [Zanderighi, B.J. (2011)]

. . . and various background processes

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pp → Hjj via VBF in the POWHEG-BOX

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Nason, Oleari (2009)

✦ good agreement between parton-level NLO calculation andPOWHEG matched with HERWIG or PYTHIA for many observables

✦ for high multiplicites, HERWIG produces harder jets than PYTHIA

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Higgs signal in VBF

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pp → Hjj via VBF under excellent control:

✦ QCD & EW NLO corrections at 10% level

✦ dominant NNLO QCD corrections small

✦ interference with GF Hjj production negligible

✦ SUSY corrections small within the MSSM

✦ small PDF uncertainties . 4%

✦ NLO-QCD matched with parton shower available

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what else is VBF good for?

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the versatility of VBF processes

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vector boson fusion (VBF)

Standard Model:

important production modefor the Higgs boson

sensitive to Higgs couplingsand CP properties

beyond the Standard Model:

sensitive to the mechanism ofelectroweak symmetry breaking

lstrongly interacting weak sector,

new resonances, . . . ?

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gauge boson scattering

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reminder: pp → Hjj via VBF with H → V V

important production mode for SM-type Higgs boson

(used in official ATLAS and CMS analyses)

important irreducible background: EW V V jj production

interesting per se: contains VLVL → VLVL scatteringsensitive to origin of electroweak symmetry breaking

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EW V V jj production

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need stable, fast & flexible Monte Carlo program allowing for

✦ computation of various jet observables for

W+W−jj, ZZjj, W±Zjj , and W±W±jj

production via VBF at NLO-QCD accuracy

(leptonic decay correlations being fully taken into account)

✦ straightforward implementation of cuts

C. Oleari, D. Zeppenfeld, B. J. (2006, 2009)

G. Bozzi, C. Oleari, D. Zeppenfeld, B. J. (2007)

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ingredients of the calculation

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need to compute numerical value for . . .

|MB|2 = + + + . . .2

. . . Born amplitude squared in 4 dim

|MR|2 = + + + . . .2

. . . real-emission amplitude squared in 4 dim andcounter-terms for infrared-divergent configurations

almost 3000 diagrams → essential: organize calculation economically!

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virtual contributions

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MV = + + + . . .

= MB F (Q)

[

− 2

ε2− 3

ε

]

+ MfiniteV

determined numerically[c. f. Denner, Dittmaier (2002,2005)]

combination of real emission, virtuals,and subtraction terms:

poles canceled analytically → finite results

phase-space integration can be performed numerically (Vegas)

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precision tools

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Monte Carlo program for cross sections and distributionswhich allows for the implementation of

realistic experimental selection cuts

☞ embedded in more general frameworkfor various VBF-type processes

vbfnlo

publicly available from

http://www-itp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/∼vbfnloweb/

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pp → V V jj @ LHC: settings

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use design energy of 14 TeV, apply kT jet algorithm,

CTEQ6 parton distributions, and typical VBF cuts:

tagging jets

charged leptons

pTj ≥ 20 GeV, |yj| ≤ 4.5,

∆yjj = |yj1 − yj2| > 4,

Mjj > 600 GeV

jets located in opposite hemispheres

pTℓ ≥ 20 GeV, |ηℓ| ≤ 2.5,

∆Rjℓ ≥ 0.4,

yj,min < ηℓ < yj,max

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scale uncertainty: pp → W+W+jj

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LO, ξF = ξ

NLO, ξF = ξ, ξR = 1

NLO, ξF = 1, ξR = ξ

NLO, ξF = ξ, ξR = ξ

Oleari, Zeppenfeld, B. J. (2009)

choose default scale µ0 = mW or µ0 = Qset µR = ξRµ0 and µF = ξFµ0, with variable ξ

LO: no control on scaleNLO QCD: scale dependence strongly reduced

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W+W+jj distributions: invariant mass of tagging jets

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Oleari, Zeppenfeld, B. J. (2009)

µ = ξ µ0

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pp → W+W+jj: energy dependence

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B. J. (2009)

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pp → W+W+jj in the POWHEG-BOX

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QCD-induced productionMelia, Melnikov, Rontsch, Zanderighi (2010);

Melia, Nason, Rontsch, Zanderighi (2011)

EW productionOleari, Zeppenfeld, B.J. (2009);

Zanderighi, B.J. (2011)

NLO-QCD results with basic jet cuts only (ptagT

> 20 GeV):

σincQCD = 2.12 fb σinc

EW = 1.097 fb

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pp → W+W+jj: QCD versus EW production

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Zanderighi, B.J. (2011)

10-7

10-6

10-5

10-4

10-3

10-2

0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000

dσ/d

Mj 1

j 2 [f

b/G

eV]

Mj1j2 [GeV]

QCDEW

00.05

0.10.15

0.20.25

0.30.35

0.40.45

-4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4

dσ/d

∆ y j

1j2 [f

b]

∆yj1j2

QCDEW

· √s = 7 TeV

· basic jet cuts only

· NLO-QCD accuracy

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pp → W+W+jj in the POWHEG-BOX

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QCD-induced productionMelia, Melnikov, Rontsch, Zanderighi (2010);

Melia, Nason, Rontsch, Zanderighi (2011)

EW productionOleari, Zeppenfeld, B.J. (2009);

Zanderighi, B.J. (2011)

NLO results with basic jet cuts only (ptagT

> 20 GeV):

σincQCD = 2.12 fb σinc

EW = 1.097 fb

NLO results with VBF cuts:

σcutsQCD = 0.0074 fb σcuts

EW = 0.201 fb

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pp → W+W+jj in the POWHEG-BOX

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Zanderighi, B.J. (2011)

0.02

0.04

0.06

0.08

dσ/

dyj1

[fb]

POWHEG+PYTHIANLO

0.81.01.2

-3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3(Pw

g+P

yt)/

NLO

yj1

10-6

10-5

10-4

10-3

dσ/

dpT

, j1

[fb/G

eV]

POWHEG+PYTHIANLO

0.81.01.2

100 200 300 400 500 600 700(Pw

g+P

yt)/

NLO

pT, j1 [GeV]

good agreement between parton-level NLO calculation andPOWHEG matched with PYTHIA for many observables

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pp → W+W+jj in the POWHEG-BOX

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Zanderighi, B.J. (2011)

4

8

12

dσ/

dyj3

[10-3

fb]

POWHEG+PYTHIANLO

0.51.01.5

-4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4(Pw

g+P

yt)/

NLO

yj3

10-6

10-5

10-4

10-3

10-2

dσ/

dpT

, j3

[fb/G

eV]

POWHEG+PYTHIANLO

0.81.01.2

40 60 80 100 120 140(Pw

g+P

yt)/

NLO

pT, j3 [GeV]

typical for VBF processes: little jet activity at central rapidities→ exploited by central-jet veto techniques

note: parton-shower effects slightly enchance central jet activity

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parton showers and NLO-QCD

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✦ for precise and realistic predictions NLO-QCD calculationsmatched to parton shower programs are important

✦ codes for several VBF processesare publicly available in the POWHEG-BOX from

http://powhegbox.mib.infn.it/

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new interactions in the gauge boson sector

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VBF processes are extremelysensitive to new interactions in the

gauge boson sector

can we spot signatures ofnon-standard scenarios for

electroweak symmetry breaking?

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framework: signal

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consider two “prototype” scenarios for the VBF signal:

✦ SM with heavy Higgs boson (MH = 1 TeV, ΓH = 0.5 TeV)

naive estimate of strongly coupled sector withscalar, iso-scalar resonance at the TeV scale

✦ Warped Higgsless model withextra vector resonances (“Kaluza-Klein excitations”)

( mW2= 700 GeV , Γ = 13.7 GeV ,

mZ2= 695 GeV , Γ = 18.7 GeV ,

mZ3= 718 GeV , Γ = 6.4 GeV )

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LO results: scalar / vector resonances

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Englert, Worek, Zeppenfeld, B.J. (2008)

ZZjj → 4ℓjj W+Zjj

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impact of NLO-QCD corrections

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Englert, Zeppenfeld, B.J. (2008)

W+ZjjµR = µF = Q

NLO-QCD corrections always in the few-percent rangefor V V jj production in Warped Higgsless model

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summary

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VBF crucial for understandingmechanism of

electroweak symmetry breaking

important pre-requisites:

✦ explicit calculations revealed that VBF reactionsare perturbatively well-behaved

(moderate NLO QCD and EW corrections,negligible higher order and interference effects)

✦ backgrounds are well under control

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conclusions

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for understanding and interpreting physicsat the LHC (and beyond . . . ) it is vital to provide:

✦ precise predictions for signals and backgrounds, including

· NLO QCD corrections· NLO EW corrections· and more: interference effects, resummations,

well-constrained PDFs, . . .

✦ realistic predictions, allowing for

· calculation of distributions within experimental selection cuts· matching to parton-shower Monte Carlos

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