The impact of PDF and alphas uncertainties on Higgs Production in gluon fusion at hadron colliders

Federico Demartin; Stefano Forte; Elisa Mariani; Juan Rojo; Alessandro Vicini

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.82.014002

The impact of PDF and alphas uncertainties on Higgs Production in gluon fusion at hadron colliders

Federico Demartin, Stefano Forte, Elisa Mariani, Juan Rojo, Alessandro Vicini

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We present a systematic study of uncertainties due to parton distributions and the strong coupling on the gluon-fusion production cross section of the Standard Model Higgs at the Tevatron and LHC colliders. We compare procedures and results when three recent sets of PDFs are used, CTEQ6.6, MSTW08 and NNPDF1.2, and we discuss specifically the way PDF and strong coupling uncertainties are combined. We find that results obtained from different PDF sets are in reasonable agreement if a common value of the strong coupling is adopted. We show that the addition in quadrature of PDF and alphas uncertainties provides an adequate approximation to the full result with exact error propagation. We discuss a simple recipe to determine a conservative PDF+alphas uncertainty from available global parton sets, and we use it to estimate this uncertainty on the given process to be about 10% at the Tevatron and 5% at the LHC for a light Higgs.

Original language	English
Article number	014002
Journal	Phys.Rev.D
Volume	82
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.014002
Publication status	Published - 6 Apr 2010

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The impact of PDF and alphas uncertainties on Higgs Production in gluon fusion at hadron colliders

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