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We study the inclusive production of a Higgs boson in association with a high-p T photon at the LHC, detailing the leading-order features of the main processes contributing to the Hγ final state. Requiring an extra hard photon in Higgs production upsets the cross-section hierarchy for the dominant channels. The Hγ inclusive production comes mainly from photons radiated in vector-boson fusion (VBF), which accounts for about 2/3 of the total rate, for p γ,j T > 30 GeV, at leading order. On the other hand, radiating a high-p T photon in the main top-loop Higgs channel implies an extra parton in the final state, which suppresses the production rate by a further α S power. As a result, the Hγ production via top loops at the LHC has rates comparable with the ones arising from either the \( Ht\overline{t} \) production or the HW (Z)γ associated production. Then, in order of decreasing cross section, comes the single-top-plus-Higgs channel, followed in turn by the heavy-flavor fusion processes \( b\overline{b}\to H\gamma \) and \( c\overline{c}\to H\gamma \). The Hγ production via electroweak loops has just a minor role. At larger c.m. energies, the \( Ht\overline{t}\gamma \) channel surpasses the total contribution of top-loop processes. In particular, requiring p γ,j T > 30 GeV at \( \sqrt{S}\simeq 100 \) TeV, \( Ht\overline{t}\gamma \) accounts for about 1/4 of the inclusive Hγ production at leading order, about half of the total being due to VBF production.
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Gabrielli, E., Mele, B., Piccinini, F. et al. Asking for an extra photon in Higgs production at the LHC and beyond. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 3 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2016)003
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