Higgs-boson production through gluon fusion at NNLO QCD with parton showers
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Stefan Höche, Ye Li, and Stefan Prestel SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, 22603 Hamburg, Germany We discuss how the UNLOPS scheme for matching NNLO calculations to parton showers can be applied to processes with large higher-order perturbative QCD corrections. We focus on Higgsboson production through gluon fusion as an example. We also present an NNLO fixed-order event generator for this reaction.
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