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The kinematics reachable at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) offer us a unique opportunity to probe the high-energy regime of QCD in quite original and unprecedented ways.
An interesting new channel, which has been proposed to investigate the semi-hard regime of QCD, is the inclusive hadroproduction of a forward Higgs boson in association with a backward identified jet.
Within the so-called Balitski-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov (BFKL) approach, established tool to investigate the Regge-Gribov limit of QCD, the fundamental missing ingredient for a full next-to-leading logarithimic (NLL) description of the aforementioned process, is the NLO Higgs boson impact factor (IF).
We present a full NLO result for the forward Higgs IF, obtained in the infinite top-mass limit, discussing problems associated with a high-energy computation in the presence of the Higgs effective vertex. We also present preliminary phenomenological results.
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