Next-to-leading order QCD and electroweak corrections to Higgs-strahlung processes at the LHC

Abstract

In this paper we calculate the total and fiducial cross sections as well as differential distributions for the Higgs-strahlung or VH process $pp\to VH\to l{\nu }_l/l^{-}{l}^{+}+H$, (V = W or Z, l=e,$\mu$) including QCD and electro-weak corrections up to next-to-leading order before and after reweighting photon PDFs of NNPDF2.3qed, NNPDF3.0qed, MRST2004qed, CT14QEDinc, and LUXqed at the LHC with 13 TeV and Higgs boson mass $M_H=125$ GeV. The predictions from the various photon PDFs before and after reweighting against each other are in good agreement. The photon PDF uncertainties of the photon-induced cross sections decrease significantly with the reweighting PDFs.

Comments: 15 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables