Higher-order QCD corrections to associated VH production with H → bb¯ decay at the LHC

We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of a Standard Model Higgs boson H in association with a vector boson V (V = W/Z) at hadron colliders. We present a fully exclusive perturbative QCD calculation at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) for the production of the VH pair, including the Higgs boson decay into a bottom-antibottom quark (bb¯) pair up to nextto-leading order in QCD. We consider the selection cuts that are typically applied in the LHC experimental analysis, and we compare perturbative fixed-order results with NLO parton shower predictions.