Published December 4, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

NLO electroweak corrections to Higgs boson production at hadron colliders

  • 1. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik E, RWTH Aachen University, 52056 Aachen (Germany)
  • 2. Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Universita di Torino, and INFN, Sezione di Torino (Italy)
  • 3. Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 (United States)
  • 4. Institut fuer Theoretische Teilchenphysik, Universitaet Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe (Germany)

Description

Results for the complete NLO electroweak corrections to Standard Model Higgs production via gluon fusion are included in the total cross section for hadronic collisions. Artificially large threshold effects are avoided working in the complex-mass scheme. The numerical impact at LHC (Tevatron) energies is explored for Higgs mass values up to 500 GeV (200 GeV). Assuming a complete factorization of the electroweak corrections, one finds a +5% shift with respect to the NNLO QCD cross section for a Higgs mass of 120 GeV both at the LHC and the Tevatron. Adopting two different factorization schemes for the electroweak effects, an estimate of the corresponding total theoretical uncertainty is computed

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2008.10.018

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2008.10.018;
arXiv
arXiv:0809.1301v1;
PII
S0370-2693(08)01268-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
670
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 12-17
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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