CP3 Lunch - Higgs production via vector-boson fusion at NNLO in QCD - Marco Zaro

Wednesday 14 Apr 2010, 13:00 → 13:50 Europe/Brussels

Seminar room (E.349)

I present the total cross sections at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling for Higgs production via weak boson fusion. Results are obtained via the structure function approach, which builds upon the approximate, though very accurate, factorization of the QCD corrections between the two quark lines. The theoretical uncertainty on the total cross sections at the LHC from higher order corrections and the parton distribution uncertainties are estimated at the 2% level each for a wide range of Higgs boson masses.