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Higgs production in gluon fusion at NNLO for finite top quark mass

The evaluation of the top quark mass suppressed terms to the Higgs production cross section in gluon fusion at next-to-next-to-leading order is reported on. In the region below threshold, the Feynman diagrams are evaluated using asymptotic expansions. The result is then matched to the high-energy limit derived from kT factorization. The result shows that the heavy-top limit used so far approximates the full result to better than 1%.