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Higgs boson production at hadron colliders in the k_T-factorization approach

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-01-07 v1

Abstract

We consider the Higgs boson production at high energy hadron colliders in the framework of the k_T-factorization approach. The attention is focused on the dominant gluon-gluon fusion subprocess. We calculate the total cross section and transverse momentum distributions of the inclusive Higgs production using unintegrated gluon distributions in a proton obtained from the full CCFM evolution equation. We show that k_T-factorization gives a possibility to investigate the associated Higgs boson and jets production. We calculate the transverse momentum distributions and study the Higgs-jet and jet-jet azimuthal correlations in the Higgs + one or two jet production processes. We demonstrate the importance of the higher-order corrections within the k_T-factorization approach. These corrections should be developed and taken into account in the future applications.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0501172,
  title  = {Higgs boson production at hadron colliders in the k_T-factorization approach},
  author = {A. V. Lipatov and N. P. Zotov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0501172},
  year   = {2009}
}

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20 pages, 9 figures