Higgs production with large transverse momentum in hadronic collisions at next-to-leading order

Inclusive associated production of a light Higgs boson with one jet in pp c ollisions is studied in next-to-leading order quantum chromodynamics. Trans verse momentum and rapidity distributions of the Higgs boson are calculated for the LHC in the large top-quark mass limit. We find that the K-factor o f this process is large (approximate to 1.6). Our result supports previous suggestions that the production channel p + p --> H + jet --> gamma + gamma + jet gives a measurable signal for Higgs production at the LHC in the mas s range 100-140 GeV.