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arxiv: 0907.2362 · v2 · submitted 2009-07-14 · ✦ hep-ph

HPro: A NLO Monte-Carlo for Higgs production via gluon fusion with finite heavy quark masses

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We compute fully differential next-to-leading order QCD cross-sections for Higgs boson production via gluon fusion in the Standard Model. We maintain the full dependence of the cross-sections on the top and bottom quark mass. We find that finite quark mass effects are important given the achieved precision of QCD predictions for gluon fusion. Our Monte-Carlo program, HPro, can correct existing NNLO fully differential calculations, which employ the approximation of an infinitely heavy top and a vanishing bottom quark Yukawa coupling, for heavy quark finite mass effects through NLO.

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