Inhalt

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   Contents
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   List of Figures
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   Listings
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   Acronyms
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   Introduction: The Higgs, the LHC, and the Tool Box
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  1 Higgs Physics
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   1.1 Properties of the Weak Interaction
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  1.2 The Higgs at the LHC
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   1.2.1 Interlude: Hadronic Processes
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   1.2.2 Higgs Production and Decay in the Standard Model
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   1.2.3 Higgs Search and Discovery
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   1.2.4 Measuring Higgs properties
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   1.3 The Higgs and New Physics
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   1.3.1 Sensitivity to Higher Scales
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   1.3.2 Extended Higgs Sector
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  2 Perturbative Calculations
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   2.1 Matrix Elements from Feynman Diagrams
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   2.2 Regularization of Infinities
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   2.3 Renormalization
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  2.4 Infrared Singularities
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   2.4.1 Mass Factorization
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   2.4.2 Dipole Subtraction
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   2.5 Asymptotic Expansions
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   2.6 Program Setup
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   Higgs Strahlung at the LHC: Standard Model and Beyond
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  3 Higgs strahlung at the LHC: Introduction
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   3.1 Motivation
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   3.2 Contributions to the Cross Section
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   3.3 The HW/HZ ratio
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  4 ggHZ at Next-to-Leading Order
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   4.1 Motivation
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  4.2 General Strategy and Leading-Order Results
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   4.2.1 Choice of Gauge
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   4.2.2 Effective Lagrangians
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   4.2.3 Numerical Consequences
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   4.3 Next-to-Leading Order Calculation
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   4.3.1 Virtual Corrections
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   4.3.2 Real Corrections
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   4.3.3 Numerical Results
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   4.4 Conclusion
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  5 Higgs Strahlung: From SM to 2HDM
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   5.1 The Two-Higgs-Doublet Model
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   5.2 Theory of Higgs Strahlung in the 2HDM
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  5.3 Numerical Results
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   5.3.1 Setup and Choice of Input Parameters
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   5.3.2 Light Higgs
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   5.3.3 Heavy and Pseudoscalar Higgs
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   5.3.4 Boosted Scenario
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   5.4 Conclusions
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   Numerical Integration of Loop Integrals in Four-Dimensional Regularization
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  6 Introduction to FDR
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   6.1 Isolation of UV Divergencies
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   6.2 Definition of the FDR Integral
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   6.3 Properties of the FDR Integral
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  7 Local Counterterms for FDR Integrals
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   7.1 Motivation
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   7.2 General Considerations
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   7.3 The One-Loop Infrared-Finite Case
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   7.4 Analytic Continuation: a One-Loop Example
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   7.5 The Two-Loop Case
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  8 Application to Two-Loop Vacuum Integrals
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  8.1 Implementation
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   8.1.1 Overview and Input
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   8.1.2 Part I: FORM
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   8.1.3 Part II: Mathematica
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   8.1.4 Part III: c++
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   8.2 phitogammagamma at NLO QCD
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   8.2.1 Notation for the Amplitude
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   8.2.2 Results in Dimensional Regularization
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   8.2.3 Evaluation with FDRcalc
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   8.3 The rho Parameter to Order GF Mt2 alphas
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   8.4 The Photon Propagator to Order alpha alphas
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   8.5 Conclusion and Outlook
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   Appendix
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  A Dimensionally-Regulated Integrals
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  A.1 Massless One-Loop Integrals
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   A.1.1 Definitions
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   A.1.2 Scalar Integrals
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   A.1.3 Passarino-Veltman Reduction
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   A.1.4 Integration Routine tribox
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   A.1.5 Definition of Coefficients
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  A.2 Phase-Space Parametrization
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   A.2.1 Phase Space for Two Massive Particles
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   A.2.2 Phase Space for Two Massive and One Massless Particle
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  B FDR Integrals
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  B.1 Parametrization of FDR-Regulated Integrals
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   B.1.1 Scalar Integrals
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   B.1.2 Tensor Integrals
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  B.2 Two-Loop Counterterms: The Special Cases
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   B.2.1 The Case N1=0
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   B.2.2 The Cases Ny<2
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   B.2.3 The Case N1=0 and Ny=1
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  B.3 Standard Integrals
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   B.3.1 One Loop
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   B.3.2 Two Loop
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   B.4 Miscellaneous
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   Bibliography
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   Danksagung