In the Standard Model, the coupling of the Higgs boson to b quarks is weak, leading to small cross sections for producing a Higgs boson in association with b quarks. However, Higgs bosons with enhanced couplings to b quarks, such as occur in supersymmetric models for large values of tan beta, will be copiously produced at both the Tevatron and the LHC in association with b quarks, which will be an important discovery channel. We investigate the connections between the production channels, bg -> bh and gg ->b bbar h, at next-to-leading order (NLO) in perturbative QCD and present results for the cases with two high p_T b jets and with one high p_T b jet at both the Tevatron the the LHC. Finally, the total cross sections without cuts are compared between gg -> b bbar h at NLO and b bbar ->h at NNLO.
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0405302,
title = {Higgs Boson Production in Association with Bottom Quarks},
author = {J. Campbell and S. Dawson and S. Dittmaier and C. Jackson and M. Kramer and F. Maltoni and L. Reina and M. Spira and D. Wackeroth and S. Willenbrock},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0405302},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, Contributed to 3rd Les Houches Workshop: Physics at TeV Colliders