Inclusive Production Cross Sections at N3LO
Abstract
We present for the first time the inclusive cross section for associated Higgs boson production with a massive gauge boson at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. Furthermore, we introduce n3loxs, a public, numerical program for the evaluation of inclusive cross sections at the third order in the strong coupling constant. Our tool allows to derive predictions for charged- and neutral-current Drell-Yan production, gluon- and bottom-quark-fusion Higgs boson production and Higgs boson associated production with a heavy gauge boson. We discuss perturbative and parton distribution function (PDF) uncertainties of the aforementioned processes. We perform a comparison of global PDF sets for a variety of process including associated Higgs boson production and observe deviations among predictions for several processes.
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@article{arxiv.2209.06138,
title = {Inclusive Production Cross Sections at N3LO},
author = {Julien Baglio and Claude Duhr and Bernhard Mistlberger and Robert Szafron},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.06138},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
53 pages, 20 figures, 12 tables. Associated public computer program to be found at https://github.com/jubaglio/n3loxs