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Higgs production in bottom quark fusion: Matching the 4- and 5-flavour schemes to third order in the strong coupling

We present analytic results for the partonic cross sections for the production of a Higgs boson via the fusion of two bottom quarks at N$^{3}$LO in QCD perturbation theory in the five-flavour scheme. We combine this perturbative result with NLO accurate predictions in the four-flavour scheme that in...

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Autores principales: Duhr, Claude, Dulat, Falko, Hirschi, Valentin, Mistlberger, Bernhard
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2020)017
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2715336
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Sumario:We present analytic results for the partonic cross sections for the production of a Higgs boson via the fusion of two bottom quarks at N$^{3}$LO in QCD perturbation theory in the five-flavour scheme. We combine this perturbative result with NLO accurate predictions in the four-flavour scheme that include the full bottom quark mass dependence by appropriately removing any double-counting stemming from contributions included in both predictions. We thereby obtain state-of-the-art predictions for the inclusive production probability of a Higgs boson via bottom quark fusion at hadron colliders.