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We compute the resummed hadronic transverse-energy (E T ) distribution due to initial-state QCD radiation in the production of a Standard Model Higgs boson of mass 126 GeV by gluon fusion at the Large Hadron Collider, with matching to next-to-leading order calculations at large E T . Effects of hadronization, underlying event and limited detector acceptance are estimated using aMC@NLO with the Herwig++ and Pythia8 event generators.
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On leave of absence from INFN, Sezione di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy. (Massimiliano Grazzini)
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Grazzini, M., Papaefstathiou, A., Smillie, J.M. et al. Resummation of the transverse-energy distribution in Higgs boson production at the Large Hadron Collider. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 56 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2014)056
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