Hadron production through Higgs decay at next-to-leading order in the general-mass variable-flavor-number scheme

Abstract

It is known that about $60\%$ of all Higgses produced at the CERN-LHC decay into a pair of bottom quarks. Bottoms quickly hadronize, in most cases, into bottom-flavored (B) hadrons before they decay. Therefore, the study of scaled-energy distribution of B-mesons in the decay process $H\to B+Jets$ can be considered as a channel to search for the Higgs characteristics. In all previous studies, authors have ignored the mass effect of b-quarks as well as B-mesons by working in the massless scheme. In this work we, for the first time, study the mass effect of b-quarks as well as produced mesons on the scaled-energy ($x_B$) distribution of B-mesons by working in the massive scheme or general-mass variable-flavor-number scheme (GM-VFNs). We find that the meson mass is responsible for a significant enhancement of partial decay width in the low-$x_B$ region while the b-quark mass leads to an enhancement of the partial decay rate in the peak region and above.

arXiv commentThe present work includes 9 pages with 5 figures. It is accepted to publish in Physical Review D

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