Higher-order radiative corrections for $b\bar{b}\to H^{-}{W}^{+}$

Abstract

I present higher-order radiative corrections from collinear and soft gluon emission for the associated production of a charged Higgs boson with a $W$ boson. The calculation uses expressions from resummation at next-to-leading-logarithm accuracy. From the resummed cross section I derive analytical formulas at approximate NNLO and N${}^3$LO. Total cross sections are presented for the process $b\bar{b}\to H^{-}{W}^{+}$ at various LHC energies. The transverse-momentum and rapidity distributions of the charged Higgs boson are also calculated.

Comments: 14 pages, 8 figures; additional material in v2