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State-of-the-art electroweak Higgs boson pair production in association with two jets at the LHC in the Standard Model and beyond
by Jens Braun, Pia Bredt, Gudrun Heinrich, Marius Höfer, Barbara Jäger, Alexander Karlberg, Simon Reinhardt
Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Jens Braun · Gudrun Heinrich · Alexander Karlberg |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02488v1 (pdf) |
| Date submitted: | Nov. 12, 2025, 3:48 p.m. |
| Submitted by: | Alexander Karlberg |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Community Reports |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Phenomenological |
Abstract
We present a systematic comparison of two state-of-the-art tools for the simulation of Higgs boson pair production via vector boson fusion (VBF) as implemented in the Monte-Carlo tools GoSam+Whizard and the POWHEG-BOX. Cross sections and distributions are provided within the Standard Model and beyond, within scenarios typical for experimental physics analyses, and for a range of energies of relevance to the LHC and its upcoming high luminosity phase. We further perform a detailed study of the so-called VBF approximation, in particular in the presence of anomalous Higgs boson couplings.
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In refereeing