The total cross section
I have entered the process 'e,E->h,ne,Ne' with the higgs decaying to a bottom and antibottom quark 'h->b,B' and done a run over the energy from 150 GeV to 1TeV.
The results for cross section in the summary table are now different to the cross section for the process in the results below, does this mean that the decay is being taken into account and HEPMDB is now doing the calculation for the branching ratio etc for us and giving us the total cross section out for the process and decay?
If this is so, I have found that the value in the summary table for the total cross section, of production and decay, to be different to what I have calculated it to be manually.
an example of results I have got is shown below
En150.txt CalcHEP Numerical Details
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Processes sigma (fb) unc (%) PID Time (hr) N events
e,E->h,ne,Ne 3.0818e+01 5.01e-02 0 0.00 25/25
Total 3.0818e+01
Decays width (GeV) unc (%) PID Time (hr) N events
h->b,B 2.6509e-03 4.47e-05 0 0.00 3/5
Widths PID Time (hr)
Widths 0 0.00
Total 1.9250e+01 0.00 1/1
However when I calculate the total cross section manually using a branching ratio of 78.60% (which I calculated using the above width of 2.6509e-03 GeV and a total width of 3.37e-03 GeV which i got from finding the partial widths of all decays by entering the decay into the batch file as 'h->2*x) I get the value of total cross section for process and decay to be 2.42e+01 which is quite different to the 1.9250e+01 given in the summary table.
any help would be greatly appreciated! Many thanks.
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