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Higgs Boson Pair Production at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-12-24 v2

Abstract

We compute the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections for Standard Model Higgs boson pair production inclusive cross section at hadron colliders within the large top-mass approximation. We provide numerical results for the LHC, finding that the corrections are large, resulting in an increase of O(20{\cal O}(20%) with respect to the next-to-leading order result at c.m. energy sH=14TeV\sqrt{s_H}=14\,\text{TeV}. We observe a substantial reduction in the scale dependence, with overlap between the current and previous order prediction. All our results are normalized using the full top- and bottom-mass dependence at leading order. We also provide analytical expressions for the K factors as a function of sHs_H.

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@article{arxiv.1309.6594,
  title  = {Higgs Boson Pair Production at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD},
  author = {Daniel de Florian and Javier Mazzitelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.6594},
  year   = {2013}
}