Second-order QCD effects in Higgs boson production through vector boson fusion

Cruz-Martinez, J.; Gehrmann, T.; Glover, E.W.N.; Huss, A.

Abstract

We compute the factorising second-order QCD corrections to the electroweak production of a Higgs boson through vector boson fusion. Our calculation is fully differential in the kinematics of the Higgs boson and of the final state jets, and uses the antenna subtraction method to handle infrared singular configurations in the different parton-level contributions. Our results allow us to reassess the impact of the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to electroweak Higgs-plus-three-jet production and of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to electroweak Higgs-plus-two-jet production. The NNLO corrections are found to be limited in magnitude to around and are uniform in several of the kinematical variables, displaying a kinematical dependence only in the transverse momenta and rapidity separation of the two tagging jets.

Citation

Cruz-Martinez, J., Gehrmann, T., Glover, E., & Huss, A. (2018). Second-order QCD effects in Higgs boson production through vector boson fusion. Physics Letters B, 781, 672-677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.04.046

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 23, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Apr 26, 2018
• Publication Date: Jun 10, 2018
• Deposit Date: May 24, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: May 24, 2018
• Journal: Physics Letters B
• Print ISSN: 0370-2693
• Electronic ISSN: 1873-2445
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 781
• Pages: 672-677
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.04.046
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1330807