https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1868-6
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Top-quark mediated effects in hadronic Higgs-Strahlung
1
Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 79104, Freiburg i.Br., Germany
2
Fachbereich C, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 42097, Wuppertal, Germany
* e-mail: harlander@physik.uni-wuppertal.de
Received:
18
November
2011
Published online:
3
February
2012
Novel contributions to the total inclusive cross section for Higgs-Strahlung in the Standard Model at hadron colliders are evaluated. Although formally of order 
, they have not been taken into account in previous NNLO predictions. The terms under consideration are induced by Higgs radiation off top-quark loops and thus proportional to the top-quark Yukawa coupling. At the Tevatron, their effects to WH production are below 1% in the relevant Higgs mass range, while for ZH production, we find corrections between about 1% and 2%. At the LHC, the contribution of the newly evaluated terms to the cross section is typically of the order of 1%–3%. Based on these results, we provide updated predictions for the total inclusive Higgs-Strahlung cross section at the Tevatron and the LHC.
© Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica, 2012
