Higgs plus jet production in bottom quark annihilation at next-to-leading order

TL;DR

This paper calculates the Higgs plus jet production cross section in bottom quark annihilation at NLO QCD, highlighting its significance in the MSSM for large tan(beta) and providing numerical results for a 14 TeV collider.

Contribution

It presents a next-to-leading order calculation of Higgs+jet production in bottom quark annihilation using the five-flavour scheme, including numerical results relevant for high-energy colliders.

Findings

NLO matrix elements for d(sigma)/d(pT) are derived.

The integrated cross section with pT cuts is computed at NNLO.

Numerical results are provided for a 14 TeV proton collider.

Abstract

The cross section for Higgs+jet production in bottom quark annihilation is calculated through NLO QCD. The five-flavour scheme is used to derive this contribution to the Higgs+jet production cross section which becomes numerically important in the MSSM for large values of tan(beta). We present numerical results for a proton collider with 14 TeV center-of-mass energy. The NLO matrix elements for d(sigma)/d(pT) are then combined with the total inclusive cross section in order to derive the integrated cross section with a maximum cut on pT at next-to-next-to-leading order.