$\text{history}$: A tool for fully-differential cross sections at next-to-next-to-leading order

Abstract

The software $\text{history}$ is designed to calculate fully-differential cross sections for colour-singlet production processes in hadronic collision up to next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. It is based on the fully-local nested soft-collinear subtraction scheme, whose implementation is entirely process independent. This allows the program to be readily applied to arbitrary colour-singlet production processes, provided the corresponding process-dependent matrix elements are supplied. In the current release, we include matrix elements for Higgs production via gluon fusion, $pp\to H+X$, and for associated Higgs production with a heavy electroweak vector boson through the Drell-Yan-like Higgs-Strahlung mechanism, $pp\to V^{\ast }+X\to VH+X$, with $V\in \{W,Z\}$.

Comments: 38 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; v2: journal version