Higgs boson production with heavy quark pairs at present and future colliders

by Laura Reina (Florida State University)

Friday 27 Jun 2003, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

The production of a Higgs boson in association with a pair of $t\\bar{t}$ or $b\\bar{b}$ quarks are very important channels for Higgs boson discovery and Higgs boson studies at both the Tevatron, the LHC, and a future high energy Linear Collider. Vital to this rich physics program is the possibility of relying on stable and well established theoretical predictions. After a general overview, I will focus on the recent calculation of the full NLO QCD inclusive cross section for $t\\bar{t}h_{SM}$ production at hadron colliders, with attention to the technical issues that have been involved in its realization. I will present results, discuss their phenomenological impact, and illustrate possible developments. In particular, I will review the possibility of extending the calculation to $b\\bar{b}h$ production and present preliminary results.