• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.77.013002
• Corpus ID: 18018777

Electroweak and QCD corrections to Higgs production via vector-boson fusion at the CERN LHC

@article{Ciccolini2007ElectroweakAQ,
  title={Electroweak and QCD corrections to Higgs production via vector-boson fusion at the CERN LHC},
  author={Mariano Ciccolini and Ansgar Denner and Stefan Dittmaier},
  journal={Physical Review D},
  year={2007},
  volume={77},
  pages={013002}
}

• M. Ciccolini, A. Denner, S. Dittmaier
• Published 25 October 2007
• Physics
• Physical Review D

The radiative corrections of the strong and electroweak interactions are calculated at next-to-leading order for Higgs-boson production in the weak-boson-fusion channel at hadron colliders. Specifically, the calculation includes all weak-boson fusion and quark-antiquark annihilation diagrams to Higgs-boson production in association with two hard jets, including all corresponding interferences. The results on the QCD corrections confirm that previously made approximations of neglecting s-channel diagrams and interferences are well suited for predictions of Higgs production with dedicated vector-boson fusion cuts at the LHC. The electroweak corrections, which also include real corrections from incoming photons and leading heavy Higgs-boson effects at two-loop order, are of the same size as the QCD corrections, viz. typically at the level of 5%-10% for a Higgs-boson mass up to {approx}700 GeV. In general, both types of corrections do not simply rescale differential distributions, but induce distortions at the level of 10%. The discussed corrections have been implemented in a flexible Monte Carlo event generator.