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6.4. Tev<strong>at</strong>ron results 150The W mass and width are chosen to be,m W = 80.398 GeV, Γ W = 2.1054 GeV . (6.9)The mass is taken from Ref. [56]. The total width given <strong>in</strong> Eq. (6.9) is derived fromthe measured branch<strong>in</strong>g r<strong>at</strong>io for W → l¯ν, 10.80 ± 0.09% [56] by us<strong>in</strong>g a lowestorder calcul<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>of</strong> the partial width,Γ(W → l¯ν) = G F√2m 2 W6π . (6.10)This ensures th<strong>at</strong> our calcul<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>in</strong>corpor<strong>at</strong>es the best possible value for the Wbranch<strong>in</strong>g r<strong>at</strong>io which is determ<strong>in</strong>ed to about 1%. The values <strong>of</strong> the total <strong>Higgs</strong>width are taken from the program hdecay [213], version 3.51.To def<strong>in</strong>e the <strong>jets</strong> we perform cluster<strong>in</strong>g accord<strong>in</strong>g to the k T algorithm [32], <strong>with</strong>jet def<strong>in</strong>itions detailed further below.6.4 Tev<strong>at</strong>ron resultsWe use a very simple set <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>clusive cuts, <strong>with</strong> no requirements on the <strong>Higgs</strong> <strong>boson</strong>decay products,p t (jet) > 15 GeV, |η jet | < 2.5, R jet,jet > 0.4 . (6.11)At the Tev<strong>at</strong>ron the search for the <strong>Higgs</strong> <strong>boson</strong> has been divided <strong>in</strong>to jet b<strong>in</strong>s.To set the stage for this we show <strong>in</strong> Table 6.1 the expected cross section <strong>in</strong> each b<strong>in</strong>due to the gluon fusion mechanism. The parameter µ is the renormaliz<strong>at</strong>ion andfactoriz<strong>at</strong>ion scale, which we set equal to m H here. We note th<strong>at</strong> next-to-next-tolead<strong>in</strong>gorder (NNLO) results for the <strong>Higgs</strong> + 0 jet cross section are given <strong>in</strong> [214],based on the earlier calcul<strong>at</strong>ions <strong>in</strong> Refs. [78,79,81]. From table 6.1 columns 3 and5, we see th<strong>at</strong> the <strong>Higgs</strong> + ≥ 2 <strong>jets</strong> b<strong>in</strong> constitutes about 13% <strong>of</strong> the cross sectionfor |η jet | < 2.5 and 11% <strong>with</strong> |η jet | < 2.It is <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g to compare the number for the fraction <strong>of</strong> <strong>Higgs</strong> + ≥ 2 jet events(|η jet | < 2) <strong>with</strong> the percentage extracted from Table 2 <strong>of</strong> [214], which is quoted

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