Decay withou branches

If you do

> generate h2 > t tbar

Then the computation is the integral of the (constant) matrix-element this does not use the information of the BR, and return the partial width for that given process.

If you do
generate p p > h2 j , h2 > t tbar

then we do the phase-space integration over the mass of h2 from -15 times the width up to 15 times the width.
The only dependence is in the total width since it appears in the denominator.
This computation does not use the narrow-width approximation and therefore does not need to know the BR (which also allow to put cut on the final state). It is here important that the total width being physical.

if you do
generate p p > h2 j
output
launch
MadSpin=ON
decay h2 > t tbar

Then you will use MadSpin package which is based on the NWA, in that case no cut are possible on the top and the BR information need to be included. If they are not, the code will start by computing them thanks to auto-width computation module (1402.1178 <https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1178>)

Cheers,

Olivier

> On 6 Mar 2021, at 15:55, Yizhou Cai <email address hidden> wrote:
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> New question #695890 on MadGraph5_aMC@NLO:
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> Dear Experts,
>
> I am wondering how MG5 works when I generate h2 > t tbar while only widths being set in param_card, without branches setting. Will it caculate branches or use a default ones. Thanks a lot in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Yizhou
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Hi Olivier,

Thank you for your kindly reply.
We are working on the S+I pattern of heavy higgs decay, in which we generate g g > t t~ / h2 QED=99 QCD=99 and thenhack MG to remove the background part from the inclusive S+I+B. Would it work as the first situation?

Regards,
Yizhou

Sorry, I didn't make it clear. The process of h2 and h3 are both considered, and I am confused about the width of h3 in the g g > t t~ / h2 process.

I have got it generally. Let me discuss with group before I closing the problem.

Thank you very much.

Cheers,
Yizhou

generate g g > t t~ / h1 h2 h3 for S+I pattern of h2, I mean.

Thanks Olivier Mattelaer, that solved my question.