2008/06/23 by Mariano Ciccolini, Ansgar Denner, Stefan Dittmaier
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2008.09.090
published as Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.183:103-108,2008 · 6 pages, LaTeX, 6 postscript figures, to appear in proceedings of the "9th Workshop on Elementary Particle Theory: Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory", Sondershausen, Germany, April 20-25, 2008
arxiv created 2008/06/23 · openalex publication_date 2008/10/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2019/06/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present results on the strong and electroweak NLO corrections to the production of a Higgs boson plus two hard jets via weak interactions at the LHC. The calculation includes all weak-boson fusion and quark-antiquark annihilation diagrams as well as all related interferences. We discuss corrections of different origin (QCD corrections of vector-boson-fusion type and interferences, electroweak corrections induced by quark or photonic initial states, heavy-Higgs-boson effects, etc.) and give some new results for distributions for a Higgs-boson mass of 200 GeV. The electroweak corrections are of the same size as the QCD corrections, viz. typically at the level of 5-10% for a Higgs-boson mass up to ∼ 700 GeV. In general, they do not simply rescale differential distributions, but induce distortions at the level of 10%. The discussed corrections have been implemented in a flexible Monte Carlo event generator.