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Higgs production in hadron collisions: soft and virtual QCD corrections at NNLO

S. Catani, D. de Florian, M. Grazzini

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0102227

Abstract

We consider QCD corrections to Higgs boson production through gluon-gluon fusion in hadron collisions. Using the recently evaluated two-loop amplitude for this process and the corresponding factorization formulae for soft-gluon bremsstrahlung at O(alphas2), we compute the soft and virtual contributions to the NNLO cross section. We also discuss soft-gluon resummation at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. Numerical results for Higgs boson production at the LHC are presented.

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