$gg \to ZH$: Updated predictions at NLO QCD, by Benjamin Campillo Aveleira, Long Chen, Joshua Davies, Giuseppe Degrassi, Pier Paolo Giardino, Ramona Gröber, Gudrun Heinrich, Stephen Jones, Matthias Kerner, Johannes Schlenk, Matthias Steinhauser, Marco Vitti

SciPost Physics Community Reports Home Authoring Refereeing Submit a manuscript About $gg \to ZH$: Updated predictions at NLO QCD Benjamin Campillo Aveleira, Long Chen, Joshua Davies, Giuseppe Degrassi, Pier Paolo Giardino, Ramona Gröber, Gudrun Heinrich, Stephen Jones, Matthias Kerner, Johannes Schlenk, Matthias Steinhauser, Marco Vitti SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 16 (2026) · published 13 January 2026 Part of the Report 5 Collection in the LHC Higgs Working Group Reports Series. doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhysCommRep.16 pdf BiBTeX RIS Submissions/Reports Abstract We present state-of-the-art predictions for the inclusive cross section of gluon-initiated $ZH$ production, following the recommendations of the LHC Higgs Working Group. In particular, we include NLO QCD corrections, where the virtual corrections are obtained from the combination of a forward expansion and a high-energy expansion, and the real corrections are exact. The expanded results for the virtual corrections are compared in detail to full numerical results. The updated predictions show a reduction of the scale uncertainties to the level of 15%, and they include an estimate of the top-mass-scheme uncertainty. × TY - JOURPB - SciPost FoundationDO - 10.21468/SciPostPhysCommRep.16TI - $gg \to ZH$: Updated predictions at NLO QCDPY - 2026/01/13UR - https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep.16JF - SciPost Physics Community ReportsJA - SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep.SP - 16A1 - Campillo Aveleira, BenjaminAU - Chen, LongAU - Davies, JoshuaAU - Degrassi, GiuseppeAU - Giardino, Pier PaoloAU - Gröber, RamonaAU - Heinrich, GudrunAU - Jones, StephenAU - Kerner, MatthiasAU - Schlenk, JohannesAU - Steinhauser, MatthiasAU - Vitti, MarcoAB - We present state-of-the-art predictions for the inclusive cross section of gluon-initiated $ZH$ production, following the recommendations of the LHC Higgs Working Group. In particular, we include NLO QCD corrections, where the virtual corrections are obtained from the combination of a forward expansion and a high-energy expansion, and the real corrections are exact. The expanded results for the virtual corrections are compared in detail to full numerical results. The updated predictions show a reduction of the scale uncertainties to the level of 15%, and they include an estimate of the top-mass-scheme uncertainty.ER - × @Article{10.21468/SciPostPhysCommRep.16, title={{$gg \to ZH$: Updated predictions at NLO QCD}}, author={Benjamin Campillo Aveleira and Long Chen and Joshua Davies and Giuseppe Degrassi and Pier Paolo Giardino and Ramona Gröber and Gudrun Heinrich and Stephen Jones and Matthias Kerner and Johannes Schlenk and Matthias Steinhauser and Marco Vitti}, journal={SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep.}, pages={16}, year={2026}, publisher={SciPost}, doi={10.21468/SciPostPhysCommRep.16}, url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysCommRep.16},} Ontology / Topics See full Ontology or Topics database. Higgs boson Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) Standard Model Authors / Affiliations: mappings to Contributors and Organizations See all Organizations. 1 Benjamin Campillo Aveleira, 2 Long Chen, 3 Joshua Davies, 4 5 Giuseppe Degrassi, 6 7 8 Pier Paolo Giardino, 9 10 Ramona Gröber, 1 Gudrun Heinrich, 11 Stephen Jones, 1 Matthias Kerner, 12 Johannes Schlenk, 1 Matthias Steinhauser, 1 Marco Vitti 1 Karlsruher Institut für Technologie / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology [KIT] 2 山东大学 / Shandong University [SDU] 3 University of Liverpool 4 Università degli Studi Roma Tre / Roma Tre University 5 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Roma Tre / INFN Sezione di Roma III 6 Instituto de Física Teórica / Institute for Theoretical Physics [IFT] 7 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas / Spanish National Research Council [CSIC] 8 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / Autonomous University of Madrid [UAM] 9 Università degli Studi di Padova / University of Padua [UNIPD] 10 INFN Sezione di Padova [INFN Padova] 11 Durham University 12 Universität Zürich / University of Zurich [UZH] Funders for the research work leading to this publication Agencia Estatal de Investigación Department of Science and Technology of Shandong Province Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / German Research FoundationDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG] European Cooperation in Science and Technology Fundación Carmen y Severo Ochoa Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) (through Organization: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare / National Institute for Nuclear Physics [INFN]) Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (through Organization: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades / Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities) Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC] Royal Society Science and Technology Facilities Council [STFC] Università degli Studi di Padova / University of Padua [UNIPD]