Direct Higgs production and jet veto at hadron colliders

Abstract

We consider Higgs boson production through gluon--gluon fusion in hadron collisions, when a veto is applied on the transverse momenta of the accompanying hard jets. We compute the QCD corrections to this process at NLO and NNLO, and present numerical results at the Tevatron and the LHC.

Comments: 5 pages, 4 ps figures, presented at the XXXVIIth Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and Hadronic interactions, Les Arc1800, France