Higgs-Boson Production in Association with Bottom Quarks at Next-to-Leading Order

Abstract

We argue that the leading-order subprocess for Higgs-boson production in association with bottom quarks is (b\bar{b} -> H). This process is an important source of Higgs bosons with enhanced Yukawa coupling to bottom quarks. We calculate the corrections to this cross section at next-to-leading-order in 1/ln(m_H/m_b) and alpha_s and at next-to-next-to-leading order in 1/ln(m_H/m_b).

Comments: To appear in PRD, typos corrected, 18 pages, LaTeX, 8 ps figures