Cargando…

Higgs boson production in association with a photon via weak boson fusion

We present next-to-leading order QCD corrections to Higgs production in association with a photon via weak boson fusion at a hadron collider. Utilizing the fully flexible parton level Monte-Carlo program VBFNLO, we find small overall corrections, while the shape of some distributions is sensitive to...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Arnold, Ken, Figy, Terrance, Jager, Barbara, Zeppenfeld, Dieter
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2011
Materias:
Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1389739
Descripción
Sumario:We present next-to-leading order QCD corrections to Higgs production in association with a photon via weak boson fusion at a hadron collider. Utilizing the fully flexible parton level Monte-Carlo program VBFNLO, we find small overall corrections, while the shape of some distributions is sensitive to radiative contributions in certain regions of phase-space. Residual scale uncertainties at next-to-leading order are at the few-percent level. Being perturbatively well under control and exhibiting kinematic features that allow to distinguish it from potential backgrounds, this process can serve as a valuable source of information on the $Hb\bar{b}$ Yukawa coupling.