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Title: Fully Differential Higgs Boson Production to Third Order in QCD

Abstract

We present the first fully differential predictions for the production cross section of a Higgs boson via the gluon fusion mechanism at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO) in QCD perturbation theory. Differential distributions are shown for the two-photon final state produced by the decay of the Higgs boson for a realistic set of fiducial cuts. The N3LO corrections exhibit complex features and are in part larger than the inclusive N3LO corrections to the production cross section. Overall, we observe that the inclusion of the N3LO QCD corrections significantly reduces the perturbative uncertainties and leads to a stabilization of the perturbative expansion.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); UK STFC
OSTI Identifier:
1812805
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1819202
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; 200020-175595; ST/P001246/1
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 127 Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats

Chen, X., Gehrmann, T., Glover, E. W. N., Huss, A., Mistlberger, B., and Pelloni, A. Fully Differential Higgs Boson Production to Third Order in QCD. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.072002.
Chen, X., Gehrmann, T., Glover, E. W. N., Huss, A., Mistlberger, B., & Pelloni, A. Fully Differential Higgs Boson Production to Third Order in QCD. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.072002
Chen, X., Gehrmann, T., Glover, E. W. N., Huss, A., Mistlberger, B., and Pelloni, A. Tue . "Fully Differential Higgs Boson Production to Third Order in QCD". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.072002.
@article{osti_1812805,
title = {Fully Differential Higgs Boson Production to Third Order in QCD},
author = {Chen, X. and Gehrmann, T. and Glover, E. W. N. and Huss, A. and Mistlberger, B. and Pelloni, A.},
abstractNote = {We present the first fully differential predictions for the production cross section of a Higgs boson via the gluon fusion mechanism at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO) in QCD perturbation theory. Differential distributions are shown for the two-photon final state produced by the decay of the Higgs boson for a realistic set of fiducial cuts. The N3LO corrections exhibit complex features and are in part larger than the inclusive N3LO corrections to the production cross section. Overall, we observe that the inclusion of the N3LO QCD corrections significantly reduces the perturbative uncertainties and leads to a stabilization of the perturbative expansion.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.072002},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 7,
volume = 127,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Tue Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}

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