Higgs Boson Production in Weak Boson Fusion at Next-to-Leading Order

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  • 17 March 2004
Abstract
The weak boson fusion process for neutral Higgs boson production is investigated with particular attention to the accuracy with which the Higgs boson coupling to weak bosons can be determined. Using fully differential perturbative QCD matrix elements for the signal and background processes, we generate events at CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies in which a Higgs boson is produced along with two jets that carry large transverse momentum. The effectiveness of different prescriptions to enhance the signal to background ratio is studied, and the expected signal purities are calculated in each case. We find that a simple cut on the rapidity of one final-state jet works well. We determine that an accuracy of delta_g/g ~ 10% on the effective coupling g should be possible after ~ 200 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity is accumulated at the LHC.

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