Precision predictions at N3LO for the Higgs boson rapidity distribution at the LHC
Abstract
We present precise predictions for the Higgs boson rapidity distribution at the LHC in the gluon fusion production mode. Our approach relies on the fully analytic computation of six terms in a systematic expansion of the partonic differential cross section around the production threshold of the Higgs boson at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO ) in QCD perturbation theory. We observe a mild correction compared to the previous perturbative order and a significant reduction of the dependence of the cross section on the perturbative scale throughout the entire rapidity range.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- February 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.034004
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1810.09462
- Bibcode:
- 2019PhRvD..99c4004D
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, 3 awesome figures