Higgs boson production in association with a jet at NNLO using jettiness subtraction

Radja Boughezal; Christfried Focke; Walter Giele; Xiaohui Liu; Frank Petriello

Paper

Higgs boson production in association with a jet at NNLO using jettiness subtraction

Abstract

We use the recently proposed jettiness-subtraction scheme to provide the complete calculation of Higgs boson production in association with a jet in hadronic collisions through next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. This method exploits the observation that the

-jettiness event-shape variable completely describes the singularity structure of QCD when final-state colored particles are present. Our results are in agreement with a recent computation of the

and

partonic initial states based on sector-improved residue subtraction. We present phenomenological results for both fiducial cross sections and distributions at the LHC.