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Title: Higgs Boson Production in Bottom-Quark Fusion to Third Order in the Strong Coupling

Abstract

We present the inclusive cross section at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO) in perturbative QCD for the production of a Higgs boson via bottom-quark fusion. We employ the five-flavor scheme, treating the bottom quark as a massless parton while retaining a nonvanishing Yukawa coupling to the Higgs boson. We find that the dependence of the hadronic cross section on the renormalization and factorization scales is substantially reduced. For judicious choices of the scales the perturbative expansion of the cross section shows a convergent behavior. We present results for the N3LO cross section at various collider energies. In comparison to the cross section obtained from the Santander matching of the four- and five-flavor schemes, we predict a slightly higher cross section, though the two predictions are consistent within theoretical uncertainties.

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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); European Research Council (ERC)
OSTI Identifier:
1644154
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OSTI ID: 1656578
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AC02-76SF00515; 637019
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Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 125 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

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Duhr, Claude, Dulat, Falko, and Mistlberger, Bernhard. Higgs Boson Production in Bottom-Quark Fusion to Third Order in the Strong Coupling. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.051804.
Duhr, Claude, Dulat, Falko, & Mistlberger, Bernhard. Higgs Boson Production in Bottom-Quark Fusion to Third Order in the Strong Coupling. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.051804
Duhr, Claude, Dulat, Falko, and Mistlberger, Bernhard. Thu . "Higgs Boson Production in Bottom-Quark Fusion to Third Order in the Strong Coupling". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.051804.
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title = {Higgs Boson Production in Bottom-Quark Fusion to Third Order in the Strong Coupling},
author = {Duhr, Claude and Dulat, Falko and Mistlberger, Bernhard},
abstractNote = {We present the inclusive cross section at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO) in perturbative QCD for the production of a Higgs boson via bottom-quark fusion. We employ the five-flavor scheme, treating the bottom quark as a massless parton while retaining a nonvanishing Yukawa coupling to the Higgs boson. We find that the dependence of the hadronic cross section on the renormalization and factorization scales is substantially reduced. For judicious choices of the scales the perturbative expansion of the cross section shows a convergent behavior. We present results for the N3LO cross section at various collider energies. In comparison to the cross section obtained from the Santander matching of the four- and five-flavor schemes, we predict a slightly higher cross section, though the two predictions are consistent within theoretical uncertainties.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.051804},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 5,
volume = 125,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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