Higgs boson production in association with a jet at next-to-next-to-leading order

Radja Boughezal; Fabrizio Caola; Kirill Melnikov; Frank Petriello; Markus Schulze

Paper

Higgs boson production in association with a jet at next-to-next-to-leading order

Abstract

We present precise predictions for Higgs boson production in association with a jet. Our calculation is accurate to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD in the Higgs Effective Field Theory and constitutes the first complete NNLO computation for Higgs production with a final-state jet in hadronic collisions. We include all relevant phenomenological channels and present fully-differential results as well as total cross sections for the LHC. Our NNLO predictions reduce the unphysical scale dependence by more than a factor of two and enhance the total rate by about twenty percent compared to NLO QCD predictions. Our results demonstrate for the first time satisfactory convergence of the perturbative series.