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I report results from a next-to-leading order event generator of purely gluonic jet production. This calculation, is the first step in the construction of a full next-to-leading order calculation of three jet production at hadron colliders.
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We consider QCD corrections to Higgs boson production through gluon-gluon fusion in hadron collisions. We compute the effects of soft-gluon emission to all orders. We present numerical results at the Tevatron and the LHC.
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