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We study the production of Higgs boson pairs via gluon fusion at the LHC in the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model. We present predictions at NLO accuracy in QCD, matched to parton showers through the MC@NLO method. A dedicated reweighting technique…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Benoit Hespel , David Lopez-Val , Eleni Vryonidou

We compute the O(alpha_s^3) inclusive cross section for the process pp -> t-tbar-h in the Standard Model, at sqrt(s)=14 TeV. The next-to-leading order corrections drastically reduce the renormalization and factorization scale dependence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Dawson , L. H. Orr , L. Reina , D. Wackeroth

In this paper we consider the next-to-next-to-leading order total cross section of Higgs boson pair production in the large top quark mass limit and compute four expansion terms in $1/m_t^2$. Good convergence is observed below the top quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-26 Joshua Davies , Florian Herren , Go Mishima , Matthias Steinhauser

The Higgs boson is produced at the LHC through gluon fusion at roughly the Standard Model rate. New colored fermions, which can contribute to $gg\rightarrow h$, must have vector-like interactions in order not to be in conflict with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-06 Chien-Yi Chen , S. Dawson , I. M. Lewis

We present results for the two-loop helicity amplitudes entering the NLO QCD corrections to the production of a Higgs boson in association with a $Z$-boson in gluon fusion. The two-loop integrals, involving massive top quarks, are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-18 Long Chen , Gudrun Heinrich , Stephen P. Jones , Matthias Kerner , Jonas Klappert , Johannes Schlenk

We study inclusive double-Higgs boson production at the LHC and at the HL-LHC including variations of the trilinear and of the quartic Higgs boson self-couplings at next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD with full top quark mass dependence. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-25 Wojciech Bizoń , Ulrich Haisch , Luca Rottoli , Zach Gillis , Brian Moser , Philipp Windischhofer

In most of the mass range encompassed by the limits from the direct search and the electroweak precision tests, the Higgs boson of the standard model preferably decays to bottom quarks. We present, in analytic form, the dominant two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mathias Butenschoen , Frank Fugel , Bernd A. Kniehl

We present in analytic form the three-loop O(\alpha_s^2) correction to the H -> gg partial width of the standard-model Higgs boson with intermediate mass M_H << 2 M_t. Its knowledge is required because the O(\alpha_s) correction is so…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 K. G. Chetyrkin , B. A. Kniehl , M. Steinhauser

The loop-induced processes gg -> h,H,A provide the dominant Higgs boson production mechanisms at the Tevatron and LHC in a large range of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model. For squark masses below \sim 400 GeV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Margarete Mühlleitner , Michael Spira

We present differential cross sections for Higgs boson and/or two-photon production from intermediate (virtual) Higgs boson within the formalism of $k_t$-factorization. Resulting distributions for two photons from the Higgs boson are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-14 Antoni Szczurek

Higgs-boson pair production is of fundamental importance for probing the Higgs potential. At hadron colliders, the dominant production channel proceeds via gluon-gluon fusion (ggF) mediated by a top-quark loop. We report the first fully…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-30 Xuan Chen , Yuesheng Dai , Hai Tao Li , Shi-Yuan Li , Hua-Sheng Shao , Jian Wang

We compute the part of the two-loop virtual amplitude for the process $gg \to V_1 V_2 \to (l_1 \bar l'_{1}) (l_2 \bar l'_2)$, where $V_{1,2}$ are arbitrary electroweak gauge bosons, that receives contributions from loops of massless quarks.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-02 Fabrizio Caola , Johannes M. Henn , Kirill Melnikov , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We study the impact of the two-loop corrections controlled by the BSM Higgs couplings on the cross section for the production of a pair of SM-like Higgs bosons via gluon fusion in the aligned THDM. To this aim, we reassess the two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-09 Giuseppe Degrassi , Ramona Gröber , Pietro Slavich

We present the first fully differential next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD calculation for the production of a top-antitop quark pair in association with a Higgs boson ($t \bar t H$) at hadron colliders. The computation is exact,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 Simone Devoto , Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Javier Mazzitelli , Chiara Savoini

At proton colliders, Higgs particles are dominantly produced in the gluon--gluon fusion mechanism. The Higgs--gluons coupling is mediated by heavy quark loops, and the process can serve to count the number of heavy strongly interacting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-13 A. Djouadi , P. Gambino

We analyze the next-to-leading order SUSY-QCD corrections to the production of Higgs particles at hadron colliders in supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model. Besides the standard QCD corrections due to gluon exchange and emission,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Abdelhak Djouadi , Michael Spira

We present for the first time the exact NLO QCD corrections to the light-quark part of the mixed QCD-EW contributions to Higgs production via gluon fusion at LHC13, with exact EW-boson mass dependence. The relevant two-loop real-emission…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-31 Matteo Becchetti , Roberto Bonciani , Vittorio Del Duca , Valentin Hirschi , Francesco Moriello , Armin Schweitzer

We present the precision predictions on the pair production of light, $CP$-even Higgs in weak vector boson fusion (VBF) up to the QCD next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) at hadron colliders within the $CP$-conserving type-II…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-11 Li Wei-Hua , Zhang Ren-You , Ma Wen-Gan , Guo Lei , Ling Liu-Sheng , Li Xiao-Zhou

We compute the total cross section for the production of a light CP even Higgs boson within the framework of supersymmetric QCD up to next-to-next-to-leading order. Technical subtleties in connection to the evaluation of three-loop Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Alexey Pak , Matthias Steinhauser , Nikolai Zerf

The radiative corrections of the strong and electroweak interactions are calculated at next-to-leading order for Higgs-boson production in the weak-boson-fusion channel at hadron colliders. Specifically, the calculation includes all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mariano Ciccolini , Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier