arXiv:hep-ph/0207004·v3·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Higgs boson production at hadron colliders in NNLO QCD
Charalampos Anastasiou🇺🇸 · Kirill Melnikov🇺🇸
Abstract
We compute the total cross-section for direct Higgs boson production in hadron collisions at NNLO in perturbative QCD. A new technique which allows us to perform an algorithmic evaluation of inclusive phase-space integrals is introduced, based on the Cutkosky rules, integration by parts and the differential equation method for computing master integrals. Finally, we discuss the numerical impact of the O(alpha_s^2) QCD corrections to the Higgs boson production cross-section at the LHC and the Tevatron.
Comments: 27 pages, revtex