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Higgs production in hadron collisions: soft and virtual QCD corrections at NNLO

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-02-03 v3

Abstract

We consider QCD corrections to Higgs boson production through gluon-gluon fusion in hadron collisions. Using the recently evaluated two-loop amplitude for this process and the corresponding factorization formulae for soft-gluon bremsstrahlung at O(alpha_s^2), we compute the soft and virtual contributions to the NNLO cross section. We also discuss soft-gluon resummation at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. Numerical results for Higgs boson production at the LHC are presented.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0102227,
  title  = {Higgs production in hadron collisions: soft and virtual QCD corrections at NNLO},
  author = {S. Catani and D. de Florian and M. Grazzini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0102227},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

17 pages, 4 figures included. One note and one reference added