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Terrance M. Figy

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arXiv2025

Triple Higgs Production at Muon Colliders in the Higgs Triplet Model

The production of three Higgs bosons provides a unique opportunity to probe both the trilinear and quartic Higgs couplings within the Standard Model and beyond. In this study, we investigate triple Higgs production in the Higgs Triplet Model via photon fusion, $\gamma \gamma \to h^0 h^0 h^0$, allowing us to explore the contributions from singly and doubly charged Higgs bosons and their couplings to CP-even scalars. We analyze the total cross sections and kinematic distributions, comparing our results with the corresponding SM predictions. Our calculations utilize an Automated One-Loop Calculator to evaluate the numerical amplitudes for the $2 \to 3$ process. For the collider simulations, we develop a Monte Carlo phase-space integrator to predict outcomes for a future muon collider, covering a center-of-mass energy range from 2 TeV to 10 TeV.

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arXiv2024

Double Higgs Boson Production via Photon Fusion at Muon Colliders within the Triplet Higgs Model

In this paper, we present predictions for scattering cross-section the of Higgs boson pair production via photon fusion at future muon colliders, focusing specifically the production processes $μ^+μ^- \rightarrow γγ\rightarrow h^0h^0, A^0A^0$. We investigated the impact of three choices the photon structure functions on cross-section predictions for a range model input parameters within the theoretical framework of the Higgs Triplet Model.

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arXiv2022

NLO Multijet Merging for Higgs Production Beyond the VBF Approximation

We present results of the simulation of electroweak Higgs boson production at the Large Hadron Collider using both the NLO multijet merging and NLO matching frameworks provided by the general purpose event generator Herwig 7. For the simulation of the hard scattering processes, we use the HJets library for the full calculation and VBFNLO for the approximate calculation to compute the $2\to h+n$ amplitudes at tree-level with $n=2,3,4$ and at one-loop with $n=2,3$.

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arXiv2019

A Projective Phase Space Generator for Hadronic Vector Boson Plus One Jet Production

In this paper we use our previously developed projective phase space generator for the calculation of the hadronic production of a vector boson with one additional jet at Next-to-Leading Order. The projective phase space generator allows us to make physical predictions in novel ways, speeding up both evaluation time and attainable accuracy. For the numerical evaluation we explore a computational model which combines the use of both multi-threading and distributed resources through the use of grid or cloud computing without depending on local institutional computer availability. The projective phase space method is well suited for this approach and gives through the use of cloud computing instant access to a large pool of resources.

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arXiv2019

Stress-testing the VBF approximation in multijet final states

We consider electro-weak Higgs plus three jets production at NLO QCD beyond strict VBF acceptance cuts. We investigate, for the first time, how accurate the VBF approximation is in these regions and within perturbative uncertainties, by a detailed comparison of full and approximate calculations. We find that a rapidity gap between the tagging jets guarantees a good approximation, while an invariant mass cut alone is not sufficient, which needs to be confronted with experimental choices. We also find that a significant part of the QCD corrections can be attributed to Higgs-Strahlungs-type topologies.

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arXiv2018

A Forward Branching Phase Space Generator for Hadron colliders

In this paper we develop a projective phase space generator appropriate for hadron collider geometry. The generator integrates over bremsstrahlung events which project back to a single, fixed Born event. The projection is dictated by the experimental jet algorithm allowing for the forward branching phase space generator to integrate out the jet masses and initial state radiation. When integrating over the virtual and bremsstrahlung amplitudes this results in a single K-factor, assigning an event probability to each Born event. This K-factor is calculable as a perturbative expansion in the strong coupling constant. One can build observables from the Born kinematics, giving identical results to tradi- tional observables as long as the observable does not depend on the infrared sensitive jet mass or initial state radiation.

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arXiv2013

NLO QCD Corrections to Electroweak Higgs Boson Plus Three Jet Production at the LHC

The implementation of the full next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to electroweak Higgs boson plus three jet production at hadron colliders such as the LHC within the Matchbox NLO framework of the Herwig++ event generator is discussed. We present numerical results for integrated cross sections and kinematic distributions.

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