Speaker
Michael Fucilla
Description
We present a full NLO result for the forward Higgs boson impact factor, obtained in the infinite top-mass limit. We discuss problems associated with a high-energy computation in the presence of the Higgs-gluons effective vertex.
This impact factor is a key ingredient to describe the inclusive hadroproduction of a forward Higgs in the limit of small Bjorken x, as well to study inclusive forward emissions of a Higgs boson in
association with a backward identified object.
Lastly, a possible extension of this calculation to the case of Higgs impact factor via gluon fusion in the central-rapidity region, is also discussed.
