TY - JOUR
T1 - Higgs-boson production at hadron colliders
T2 - Differential cross sections through next-to-next-to-leading order
AU - Anastasiou, Charalampos
AU - Melnikov, Kirill
AU - Petriello, Frank
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank T. Hahn for helpful communications regarding his numerical integration package CUBA. This work was started when the authors were visiting the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC California, Santa Barbara. C. A. thanks ETH, CERN, Saclay, Fermilab, and the Johns Hopkins University for their hospitality. This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contracts No. DE-AC02-76SF0515, No. DE-FG03-94ER-40833, and No. DE-FG03-94ER-40833, and by the National Science Foundation under Contracts No. P420D3620414350, No. P420D3620434350, and partially under Grant No. PHY99-07949.
PY - 2004/12/31
Y1 - 2004/12/31
N2 - A differential cross-section for Higgs-boson production at hadron colliders in the gluon fusion channel through next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD, was investigated. The calculation of the fully differential cross section permitted arbitrary cuts on the final state in the hh → H + X reaction. It was observed that this calculation can easily be extended to include decays of the Higgs boson into observable final states. The NNLO rapidity distribution of the Higgs boson was computed and the NNLO rapidity distribution with a veto on jet activity was also calculated. The results show that this approach can easily be extended to include nonhadronic decays of the Higgs.
AB - A differential cross-section for Higgs-boson production at hadron colliders in the gluon fusion channel through next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD, was investigated. The calculation of the fully differential cross section permitted arbitrary cuts on the final state in the hh → H + X reaction. It was observed that this calculation can easily be extended to include decays of the Higgs boson into observable final states. The NNLO rapidity distribution of the Higgs boson was computed and the NNLO rapidity distribution with a veto on jet activity was also calculated. The results show that this approach can easily be extended to include nonhadronic decays of the Higgs.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.262002
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.262002
M3 - Article
C2 - 15697969
AN - SCOPUS:45849155433
VL - 93
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
SN - 0031-9007
IS - 26 I
M1 - 262002
ER -