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We present updated predictions for the total cross section for Higgs boson production by gluon--gluon fusion in hadron collisions. Our calculation includes the most advanced theoretical information available at present for this observable:…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-19 D. de Florian , M. Grazzini

We present several key steps towards the computation of differential Higgs boson cross sections at N$^3$LO in perturbative QCD. Specifically, we work in the framework of Higgs-differential cross sections that allows to compute precise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Falko Dulat , Bernhard Mistlberger , Andrea Pelloni

We propose a novel mechanism for the production of the Higgs boson in inclusive hadronic collisions, which utilizes the presence of heavy quarks in the proton wave function. In these inclusive reactions the Higgs boson acquires the momenta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stanley J. Brodsky , Alfred S. Goldhaber , Boris Z. Kopeliovich , Ivan Schmidt

I report on a calculation of the inclusive Higgs boson production cross section at hadron colliders at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. The result is computed as an expansion about the threshold region. By continuing the expansion to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 William B. Kilgore

We present the cross-section for the threshold production of the Higgs boson at hadron-colliders at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO) in perturbative QCD. We present an analytic expression for the partonic cross-section at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Charalampos Anastasiou , Claude Duhr , Falko Dulat , Elisabetta Furlan , Thomas Gehrmann , Franz Herzog , Bernhard Mistlberger

We present updated inclusive cross sections for electroweak Higgs boson pair production for energies of relevance to the LHC and High-Luminosity phase of the LHC. The cross sections are presented at N$^3$LO QCD+NLO EW for vector-boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Ramona Gröber , Alexander Karlberg , Mathieu Pellen , Gioia Sacchi , Michael Spira

We present a calculation of the fully differential cross section for Higgs boson production in the gluon fusion channel through next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. We apply the method introduced in \cite{Anastasiou:2003gr} to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Charalampos Anastasiou , Kirill Melnikov , Frank Petriello

We present a new numerical program, HTurbo, which provides fast and numerically precise predictions for Higgs boson production cross sections. The present version of the code implements the perturbative QCD expansion up to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-15 Stefano Camarda , Leandro Cieri , Giancarlo Ferrera , Jesus Urtasun-Elizari

The most precise theoretical predictions for the total cross section for the associated production of a Higgs boson with a top-antitop quark pair at the LHC, first presented in \cite{Balsach:2025tth}, are reported. The calculation combines…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-16 Anna Kulesza

We compute the 3-loop O(\alpha \alpha_s) correction to the Higgs boson production cross section arising from light quarks using an effective theory approach. Our calculation probes the factorization of QCD and electroweak perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Charalampos Anastasiou , Radja Boughezal , Frank Petriello

We describe the contributions of virtual corrections and soft gluon emission to the inclusive Higgs boson production cross section $pp\to H + X$ computed at next-to-next-to-leading order in the heavy top quark limit. We also discuss…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert V. Harlander , William B. Kilgore

We consider Standard Model Higgs boson production through gluon--gluon fusion in hadron collisions. We combine the calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the inclusive cross section with the resummation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 D. de Florian , G. Ferrera , M. Grazzini , D. Tommasini

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-20 Jian Wang , Chong Sheng Li , Hai Tao Li , Zhao Li , C. -P. Yuan

Inclusive Higgs boson production at large transverse momentum is induced by different production channels. We focus on the leading production through gluon fusion, and perform a consistent combination of the state of the art calculations…

The total cross section for Higgs boson production via the dominant gluon fusion mechanism including NLO [two-loop] QCD corrections can be calculated numerically with the program HIGLU. The QCD corrections are included for arbitrary Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 Michael Spira

Inclusive Higgs boson pair production through the mechanism of gauge boson fusion e^{+} e^{-} -> V* V* -> h h + X (V=W,Z) in the general Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM), with h=h^0,H^0,A^0,H^{\pm}, is analyzed at order \alpha^4_{ew} in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-19 Robert N. Hodgkinson , David Lopez-Val , Joan Sola

We present the total cross sections at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling for Higgs production via weak boson fusion. Our results are obtained via the structure function approach, which builds upon the approximate,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Paolo Bolzoni , Fabio Maltoni , Sven-Olaf Moch , Marco Zaro

The search for Higgs bosons and extensions of the Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics are main tasks of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN which will start operation mid-2008. In this thesis processes which can be used to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-04-16 Michael Rauch

QCD corrections to inclusive Higgs boson production at the LHC are evaluated at next-to-next-to leading order. By performing asymptotic expansion of the cross section near the limit of infinitely heavy top quark we obtained a few first top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-18 Alexey Pak , Mikhail Rogal , Matthias Steinhauser

We calculate the cross section for the production of a Z boson in association with heavy quarks. We suggest that this cross section can be measured using an inclusive heavy-quark tagging technique. This could be used as a feasibility study…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-25 Fabio Maltoni , Thomas McElmurry , Scott Willenbrock