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We study the production of a Higgs boson in association with bottom quarks in hadronic collisions, and present phenomenological predictions relevant to the 13 TeV LHC. Our results are accurate to the next-to-leading order in QCD, and matched to parton showers through the MC@NLO method; thus, they are fully differential and based on unweighted events, which we shower by using both Herwig++ and Pythia8. We perform the computation in both the four-flavour and the five-flavour schemes, whose results we compare extensively at the level of exclusive observables. In the case of the Higgs transverse momentum, we also consider the analytically-resummed cross section up to the NNLO+NNLL accuracy. In addition, we analyse at \( \mathcal{O}\left({\alpha}_S^3\right) \) the effects of the interference between the \( b\overline{b}H \) and gluon-fusion production modes.
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Wiesemann, M., Frederix, R., Frixione, S. et al. Higgs production in association with bottom quarks. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 132 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2015)132
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