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NLO predictions for Higgs boson pair production with full top quark mass dependence matched to parton showers

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  • G. Heinrich1,
  • S.P. Jones1,
  • M. Kerner1,
  • G. Luisoni2 &
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We present the first combination of NLO QCD matrix elements for di-Higgs production, retaining the full top quark mass dependence, with a parton shower. Results are provided within both the POWHEG-BOX and MadGraph5_aMC@NLO Monte Carlo frameworks. We assess in detail the theoretical uncertainties and provide differential results. We find that, as expected, the shower effects are relatively large for observables like the transverse momentum of the Higgs boson pair, which are sensitive to extra radiation. However, these shower effects are still much smaller than the differences between the Born-improved HEFT approximation and the full NLO calculation in the tails of the distributions.

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    G. Heinrich, S.P. Jones & M. Kerner

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Heinrich, G., Jones, S., Kerner, M. et al. NLO predictions for Higgs boson pair production with full top quark mass dependence matched to parton showers. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 88 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2017)088

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  • Received: 11 May 2017

  • Revised: 06 July 2017

  • Accepted: 12 July 2017

  • Published: 21 August 2017

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2017)088

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