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We give next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) predictions for the Higgs production cross section at large transverse momentum in the threshold limit. Near the partonic threshold, all radiation is either soft or collinear to the final state jet which recoils against the Higgs boson. We find that the real emission corrections are of moderate size, but that the virtual corrections are large. We discuss the origin of these corrections and give numerical predictions for the transverse-momentum spectrum. The threshold result is matched to the known NLO result and implemented in the public code PeTeR.
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Becher, T., Bell, G., Lorentzen, C. et al. The transverse-momentum spectrum of Higgs bosons near threshold at NNLO. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 26 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2014)026
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