Weak Corrections to Associated Higgs-Bottom Quark Production

Understand

In models with an enhanced coupling of the Higgs boson to the bottom quark, the dominant production mechanism in hadronic collisions is often the partonic sub-process, bg ->bH.

• We derive the weak corrections to this process and show that they can be accurately approximated by an "Improved Born Approximation".
• At the Tevatron, these corrections are negligible and are dwarfed by PDF and scale uncertainties for M_H < 200 GeV.
• At the LHC, the weak corrections are small for M_H < 500 GeV.