Acta Physica Polonica B
Proceedings Supplement

Vol. 1, No. 2, February 2008, page 411

Leading Electroweak Corrections to the Process pp \rightarrow b \bar b H in the Standard Model at the LHC

We investigate the leading one-loop electroweak corrections to the process pp \rightarrow b\bar b H in the SM. We find that the NLO electroweak correction to the total cross-section at the tree level is about -4\% if the Higgs mass is 120 GeV. In the limit of vanishing bottom Yukawa coupling the cross section is generated solely at the loop level. This contribution is very small at M_H\sim 120 GeV and increases with growing Higgs mass, reaching about +17\% of the cross-section when the Higgs mass is about 150 GeV.

PACS numbers: 14.80.Bn, 12.15.Lk