Associated Higgs-W-Boson Production at Hadron Colliders: A Fully Exclusive QCD Calculation at NNLO

Journal Article · Fri Oct 07 04:00:00 UTC 2011 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.107.152003· OSTI ID:21612152

Ferrera, Giancarlo ^[1]; Grazzini, Massimiliano ^[2]; Tramontano, Francesco ^[3]

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1. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universita di Firenze and INFN, Sezione di Firenze, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence (Italy)
2. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Zuerich, CH-8057 Zuerich (Switzerland)
3. Theory Group, Physics Department, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)

We consider QCD radiative corrections to standard model Higgs-boson production in association with a W boson in hadron collisions. We present a fully exclusive calculation up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. To perform this NNLO computation, we use a recently proposed version of the subtraction formalism. Our calculation includes finite-width effects, the leptonic decay of the W boson with its spin correlations, and the decay of the Higgs boson into a bb pair. We present selected numerical results at the Tevatron and the LHC.

• OSTI ID: 21612152
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 15 Vol. 107; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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