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Threshold resummation effects in Higgs boson pair production at the LHC

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We investigate the resummation effects in the Standard Model Higgs boson pair production through gluon-gluon fusion at the LHC with soft-collinear effective theory. We calculate the total cross section and the invariant mass distribution at Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Logarithmic level with π 2-enhanced terms resummed, which are matched to the QCD Next-to-Leading Order results. In the high order QCD predictions exact top quark mass effects are included in full form factors. Our results show that the resummation effects increase the Next-to-Leading Order results by about 20% ~ 30%, and the scale uncertainty is reduced to 8%, which leads to increased confidence on the theoretical predictions. The PDF+α s uncertainties are almost not changed after including resummation effects. We also study the sensitivities of the total cross section and the invariant mass distribution to the Higgs boson self-coupling. We find that the total cross section and the invariant mass distribution shape depend strongly on the Higgs boson self-coupling, and therefore it is possible to extract Higgs boson self-coupling from the total cross section and invariant mass distribution when the measurement precision increases at the LHC.

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Shao, D.Y., Li, C.S., Li, H.T. et al. Threshold resummation effects in Higgs boson pair production at the LHC. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 169 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2013)169

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