https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1258-x
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Higgs production in gluon fusion at next-to-next-to-leading order QCD for finite top mass
1
Fachbereich C, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 42097, Wuppertal, Germany
2
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
* e-mail: robert.harlander@uni-wuppertal.de
Received:
14
December
2009
Published online:
19
February
2010
The inclusive Higgs production cross section from gluon fusion is calculated through NNLO QCD, including its top quark mass dependence. This is achieved through a matching of the 1/M
t
expansion of the partonic cross sections to the exact large-
limits which are derived from k
T
-factorization. The accuracy of this procedure is estimated to be better than 1% for the hadronic cross section. The final result is shown to be within 1% of the commonly used effective theory approach, thus confirming earlier findings.
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