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Two-loop virtual corrections to Higgs pair production

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-07-12 v2

Abstract

We present the two-loop virtual corrections to Standard Model Higgs boson pair production via gluon fusion ggHHgg\to HH in the heavy top quark limit. Based on this result, we evaluate the corresponding cross section at the LHC at 14 TeV in the next-to-next-to-leading order soft-virtual approximation. We find an inclusive K-factor of about 2.4, resulting in an increase close to 23% with respect to the previous available calculation at next-to-leading order. As expected, we observe a considerable reduction in the renormalization and factorization scale dependence.

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@article{arxiv.1305.5206,
  title  = {Two-loop virtual corrections to Higgs pair production},
  author = {Daniel de Florian and Javier Mazzitelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.5206},
  year   = {2013}
}
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