Resummed predictions for hadronic Higgs boson decays

Abstract

We present the NNLL${}^{\prime }$ resummed $2$-jettiness distribution for decays of the Standard Model Higgs boson to a $b\bar{b}$-quark pair and to gluons. The calculation exploits a factorisation formula derived using Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, in which large logarithms of the $2$-jettiness are resummed by renormalisation group evolution of the hard, soft and jet contributions to the differential decay rate. We match the resummed predictions to the fixed-order NNLO result using the GENEVA framework, extending the validity of the results to all values of the resolution variable and providing a fully exclusive NNLO event generator matched to the PYTHIA8 parton shower.

34 pages, 10 figures - matches version published in JHEP