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Gluon-induced Higgs-strahlung at next-to-leading order QCD

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  • Lukas Altenkamp1,
  • Stefan Dittmaier1,
  • Robert V. Harlander2,
  • Heidi Rzehak1,3 &
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Abstract

Gluon-induced contributions to the associated production of a Higgs and a Z boson are calculated with NLO accuracy in QCD. They constitute a significant contribution to the cross section for this process. The perturbative correction factor (K-factor) is calculated in the limit of infinite top-quark and vanishing bottom-quark masses. The qualitative similarity of the results to the well-known ones for the gluon-fusion process gg → H allows to conclude that rescaling the LO prediction by this K-factor leads to a reliable NLO result and realistic error estimate due to missing higher-order perturbative effects. We consider the total inclusive cross section as well as a scenario with a boosted Higgs boson, where the Higgs boson’s transverse momentum is restricted to values p T,H > 200 GeV. In both cases, we find large correction factors K ≈ 2 in most of the parameter space.

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    Lukas Altenkamp, Stefan Dittmaier & Heidi Rzehak

  2. Fachbereich C, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, D-42097, Wuppertal, Germany

    Robert V. Harlander & Tom J. E. Zirke

  3. TH Division, Physics Department, CERN, CH-1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    Heidi Rzehak

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Altenkamp, L., Dittmaier, S., Harlander, R.V. et al. Gluon-induced Higgs-strahlung at next-to-leading order QCD. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 78 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2013)078

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  • Received: 22 November 2012

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  • Published: 13 February 2013

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