history: A tool for fully-differential cross sections at next-to-next-to-leading order

The software history is designed to calculate fully-differential cross sections for colour-singlet production processes in hadronic collision up to next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. It is based on the fully-local nested soft-collinear subtraction scheme, whose implementation is entirely process independent. This allows the program to be readily applied to arbitrary colour-singlet production processes, provided the corresponding process-dependent matrix elements are supplied. In the current release, we include matrix elements for Higgs production via gluon fusion, pp\to H+X p p → H + X , and for associated Higgs production with a heavy electroweak vector boson through the Drell-Yan-like Higgs-Strahlung mechanism, pp\to V^\ast +X \to VH+X p p → V * + X → V H + X , with V∈\{W,Z\} V ∈ { W , Z } .