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Inclusive Higgs boson cross-section for the LHC at 8 TeV

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We present the inclusive Higgs boson cross-section at the LHC with collision energy of 8 TeV. Our predictions are obtained using our publicly available program iHixs which incorporates NNLO QCD corrections and electroweak corrections. We review the convergence of the QCD perturbative expansion at this new energy and examine the impact of finite Higgs width effects. We also study the impact of different parton distribution functions on the cross-section. We present tables with the cross-section values and estimates for their uncertainty due to uncalculated higher orders in the perturbative expansion and parton densities.

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    Charalampos Anastasiou, Stephan Buehler, Franz Herzog & Achilleas Lazopoulos

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Anastasiou, C., Buehler, S., Herzog, F. et al. Inclusive Higgs boson cross-section for the LHC at 8 TeV. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 4 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2012)004

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