{
  "id": "hep-ph/0210135",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2002-10-08T23:02:12.000Z",
  "updated": "2003-03-06T18:30:11.000Z",
  "title": "Differential Cross Section for Higgs Boson Production Including All-Orders Soft Gluon Resummation",
  "authors": [
    "Edmond L. Berger",
    "Jianwei Qiu"
  ],
  "comment": "42 pages, latex, 26 figures. All figures replaced. Some changes in wording. Published in Phys. Rev. D67, 034026 (2003)",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.D67:034026,2003",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.67.034026",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "hep-ex",
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "The transverse momentum $Q_T$ distribution is computed for inclusive Higgs boson production at the energy of the CERN Large Hadron Collider. We focus on the dominant gluon-gluon subprocess in perturbative quantum chromodynamics and incorporate contributions from the quark-gluon and quark-antiquark channels. Using an impact-parameter $b$-space formalism, we include all-orders resummation of large logarithms associated with emission of soft gluons. Our resummed results merge smoothly at large $Q_T$ with the fixed-order expectations in perturbative quantum chromodynamics, as they should, with no need for a matching procedure. They show a high degree of stability with respect to variation of parameters associated with the non-perturbative input at low $Q_T$. We provide distributions $d\\sigma/dy dQ_T$ for Higgs boson masses from $M_Z$ to 200 GeV. The average transverse momentum at zero rapidity $y$ grows approximately linearly with mass of the Higgs boson over the range $M_Z < m_h <200$ GeV, $<Q_T> \\simeq 0.18 m_h + 18 $~GeV. We provide analogous results for $Z$ boson production, for which we compute $<Q_T> \\simeq 25$ GeV. The harder transverse momentum distribution for the Higgs boson arises because there is more soft gluon radiation in Higgs boson production than in $Z$ production.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2003-03-06T18:30:11.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "14.70.Hp",
      "14.80.Bn",
      "13.85.Qk",
      "12.38.Cy"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "higgs boson production",
      "all-orders soft gluon resummation",
      "differential cross section",
      "transverse momentum",
      "perturbative quantum chromodynamics"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. D"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 42,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 599283
    }
  }
}