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The fully differential hadronic production of a Higgs boson through bottom-quark fusion at NNLO

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The fully differential computation of the hadronic production cross section of a Higgs boson via bottom quarks is presented at NNLO in QCD. Several differential distributions with their corresponding scale uncertainties are presented for the 8 TeV LHC. This is the first application of the method of non-linear mappings for NNLO differential calculations at hadron colliders.

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    Stephan Buehler, Franz Herzog, Achilleas Lazopoulos & Romain Mueller

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Buehler, S., Herzog, F., Lazopoulos, A. et al. The fully differential hadronic production of a Higgs boson through bottom-quark fusion at NNLO. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 115 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2012)115

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