Higgs Boson Production in Association with a Jet at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order.
We present precise predictions for Higgs boson production in association with a jet. We work in the Higgs effective field theory framework and compute next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the gluon-gluon and quark-gluon channels, which is sufficient for reliable LHC phenomenology. We present fully differential results as well as total cross sections for the LHC. Our next-to-next-to-leading order predictions reduce the unphysical scale dependence by more than a factor of 2 and enhance the total rate by about twenty percent compared to next-to-leading order QCD predictions. Our results demonstrate for the first time satisfactory convergence of the perturbative series.
High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
Radja
R
Boughezal
CERN Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.
Fabrizio
F
Caola
Institute for Theoretical Particle Physics, KIT, Karlsruhe D-76128, Germany.
Kirill
K
Melnikov
High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.|Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
Frank
F
Petriello
CERN Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.
Markus
M
Schulze