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Heavy-quark mass effects in Higgs boson production at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-16 v2

Abstract

We study the impact of heavy-quark masses in Higgs boson production through gluon fusion at the LHC. We extend previous computations of the fully differential cross section and of the transverse momentum spectrum of the Higgs boson by taking into account the finite top- and bottom-quark masses up to O(alpha_S^3). We also discuss the issues arising when the heavy-quark mass is much smaller than the Higgs mass. Our results are implemented in updated versions of the HNNLO and HRes numerical programs.

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@article{arxiv.1306.4581,
  title  = {Heavy-quark mass effects in Higgs boson production at the LHC},
  author = {M. Grazzini and H. Sargsyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.4581},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Minor modifications, results unchanged. Discussion on uncertainties added. Version published on JHEP