NLO Higgs boson production via gluon fusion matched with shower in POWHEG

Abstract

We present a next-to-leading order calculation of Higgs boson production via gluon fusion interfaced to shower Monte Carlo programs, implemented according to the POWHEG method. A detailed comparison with MC@NLO and PYTHIA is carried out for several observables, for the Tevatron and LHC colliders. Comparisons with next-to-next-to-leading order results and with resummed ones are also presented.

Comments: Version accepted for publication by JHEP. One more figure added to Sec 4.1.2 and two more explanatory figures and comments added to Sec 4.3 on p_T distributions