Higgs boson production at hadron colliders in NNLO QCD

2002/07/31 by Charalampos Anastasiou, Kirill Melnikov · 25 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(02)00837-4

published as Nucl.Phys. B646 (2002) 220-256 · 27 pages, revtex

arxiv created 2002/10/11 · openalex publication_date 2002/11/12 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

We compute the total cross-section for direct Higgs boson production in hadron collisions at NNLO in perturbative QCD. A new technique which allows us to perform an algorithmic evaluation of inclusive phase-space integrals is introduced, based on the Cutkosky rules, integration by parts and the differential equation method for computing master integrals. Finally, we discuss the numerical impact of the O(alpha_s²) QCD corrections to the Higgs boson production cross-section at the LHC and the Tevatron.

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