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arxiv: 1307.1843 · v1 · pith:6YZVCNA2new · submitted 2013-07-07 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-ex

How well can we guess theoretical uncertainties?

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The problem of estimating the effect of missing higher orders in perturbation theory is analyzed with emphasis in the application to Higgs production in gluon-gluon fusion. Well-known mathematical methods for an approximated completion of the perturbative series are applied with the goal to not truncate the series, but complete it in a well-defined way, so as to increase the accuracy - if not the precision - of theoretical predictions. The uncertainty arising from the use of the completion procedure is discussed and a recipe for constructing a corresponding probability distribution function is proposed.

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