Resummation of the transverse-energy distribution in Higgs boson production at the Large Hadron Collider

We compute the resummed hadronic transverse-energy ( E T ) distribution due to initial-state QCD radiation in the production of a Standard Model Higgs boson of mass 126 GeV by gluon fusion at the Large Hadron Collider, with matching to next-to-leading order calculations at large E T . Effects of hadronization, underlying event and limited detector acceptance are estimated using aMC@NLO with the Herwig++ and Pythia8 event generators