NLO QCD and electroweak corrections to Higgs strahlung off W/Z bosons at Tevatron and the LHC with HAWK

Abstract

We briefly report on the inclusion of NLO QCD and electroweak corrections to the Higgsstrahlung processes pp/p p→ HW/Z → H+ 2leptons in the Monte Carlo program HAWK†. The electroweak corrections, which are at the level of −(5−10)% for total cross sections, further increase in size with increasing transverse momenta (pT) in differential cross sections. For instance, for pT,H ∼ 200GeV, which is the interesting range at the LHC, the electroweak corrections to WH production reach about −15% for MH = 120GeV.