CERN-PH-TH-2014-182
CP3-14-64
LPN14-114
MCNET-14-20
ZU-TH-33-14
arXiv:1409.5301
JHEP 1502 (2015) 132

by: Wiesemann, M. (Zurich U.) et al.

Abstract:
We study the production of a Higgs boson in association with bottom quarks in hadronic collisions, and present phenomenological predictions relevant to the 13 TeV LHC. Our results are accurate to the next-to-leading order in QCD, and matched to parton showers through the MC@NLO method, thus, they are fully differential and based on unweighted events, which we shower by using both Herwig++ and Pythia8. We perform the computation in both the four-flavour and the five-flavour schemes, whose results we compare extensively at the level of exclusive observables. In the case of the Higgs transverse momentum, we also consider the analytically-resummed cross section up to the NNLO+NNLL accuracy. In addition, we analyse at $\mathcal{O}\left({\alpha}_S^3\right)$ the effects of the interference between the $b\overline{b}H$ and gluon-fusion production modes.