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Improved resummation prediction on Higgs boson production at hadron colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-11-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We improve the resummation calculations in the ResBos program for the Higgs boson production via gluon-gluon fusion by including the NNLO Wilson coefficient functions and G-functions. The improvement leads to increasing the total cross section predictions of the new ResBos program, dubbed as ResBos2, for Higgs boson production by about 8% and 6% at the Tevatron and the LHC, respectively, as compared to the old ResBos program. Furthermore, the improved predictions are compared with those from the programs HNNLO and HqT2. We find that they agree well for the total cross sections but differ slightly for the transverse momentum QTQ_T distributions. With ResBos2, we present the distributions of the two variables aTa_T and ϕ\phi^{*}, which can have better experimental resolutions than QTQ_T, for the process of Higgs boson decaying into a photon pair. Theoretical uncertainties of the ResBos2 predictions are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1205.4311,
  title  = {Improved resummation prediction on Higgs boson production at hadron colliders},
  author = {Jian Wang and Chong Sheng Li and Hai Tao Li and Zhao Li and C. -P. Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.4311},
  year   = {2012}
}

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15 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables