EW corrections to Higgs strahlung at the Tevatron and the LHC with HAWK

Abstract

We briefly report on the inclusion of NLO QCD and electroweak corrections to the Higgs-strahlung processes pp/ppbar -> HW/Z -> H+2leptons in the Monte Carlo program HAWK. The electroweak corrections, which are at the level of -(5-10)% for total cross sections, further increase in size with increasing transverse momenta (p_T) in differential cross sections. For instance, for p_{T,H}>200GeV, which is the interesting range at the LHC, the electroweak corrections to WH production reach about -15% for M_H=120GeV.

Comments: 4 pages, latex, 2 figures (8 plots), to appear in the proceedings of The 2011 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, EPS-HEP 2011, Grenoble, France