Higgs Transverse Momentum at the LHC

Abstract

Resummed QCD corrections to the transverse momentum ($Q_T$) distribution of the Standard Model Higgs boson, produced at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, are presented. The small $Q_T$ factorization formalism is reviewed, which is used to extend the standard hadronic factorization theorem to the low $Q_T$ region, with emphasis on the matching to the standard hadronic factorization. Comparison of the $Q_T$ predictions from the extended factorization and the parton shower method is performed.

5 pages, 1 figure. Talk given at the XXXVth Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions, Les Arcs, France, March 18-25, 2000