https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-025-01996-z
Regular Article
Next to soft threshold resummation for VH production
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Theory Division, IFIC, University of Valencia-CSIC, 46980, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 781039, Guwahati, Assam, India
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Received:
7
March
2025
Accepted:
29
September
2025
Published online:
15
October
2025
Abstract
We study the threshold effects for the associated production of a Higgs boson with a massive vector boson 
in the 
process at the LHC. By leveraging the universality of threshold logarithms and employing soft-virtual (SV) and next-to-soft virtual (NSV) resummation techniques, we compute threshold corrections to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. After matching the resummed predictions to the Next-to-Next-to-Leading order (NNLO) fixed order results, we present the invariant mass distribution to NNLO 
accuracy in QCD for the current LHC energies and the total production cross sections. The VH production channel is crucial for studying the couplings of the Higgs boson to the vector bosons (W, Z) and understanding the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. Precision measurements of this process help test the validity of the standard model (SM) and can reveal potential deviations indicating new physics.
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