TABLE IV: Cross section for Higgs + 2 jet production at √ s = 10 TeV, with m$_{H}$ = 160 GeV and the minimum jet p$_{t}$ allowed to vary from that specified in Eq. (14). expected to dominate once appropriate search cuts are employed, the remaining fraction of events originating from gluon fusion must be taken into account when considering potential measurements of the Higgs coupling to W and Z bosons. To address this issue, in this section we present a brief study of the rate of events ex- pected using typical weak boson fusion search cuts. In addition to the cuts already imposed (Eq. (14)), these correspond to, where j$_{1}$ and j$_{2}$ are the two jets with the highest transverse momenta. These cuts pick out the distinctive signature of two hard jets in opposite hemispheres separated by a large distance in pseudorapidity. This is illustrated in Fig, 3, where we compare the distributions of the jet pseudorapidity difference (without these cuts) in both gluon fusion and weak boson fusion. We note in passing that the shape of this distribution for the weak boson fusion process is slightly altered at NLO, whilst the shape of the prediction for the gluon fusion process is essentially unchanged. In figure 4 we show the dependence of the cross section on the c.o.m. energy, from √$_{s}$ = 7 TeV (corresponding to the initial running in 2010-11) to √$_{s}$ = 14 TeV (design expectations). We show the cross section both before and after application of the additional weak boson fusion search cuts given in Eq. (15), together with the corresponding results for the WBF process (also calculated using MCFM [36]). The QCD corrections to both processes decrease slightly as √$_{s}$ is increased, whilst the ratio of the gluon fusion to WBF cross sections after the search cuts are applied increases from 20% at 7 TeV to 35% at 14 TeV. This indicates that, viewed as a background to the weak boson fusion process, the hadronic Higgs + 2 jet process is less troublesome at energies below the nominal design value. | η$_{j}$ 1 − η$_{j}$ 2 | > 4 . 2 , η$_{j}$ 1 · η$_{j}$ 2 < 0 , (15) p min t (jet) [GeV] 20 25 30 40 50 σ$_{LO}$ [pb] 3.66 2.62 1.96 1.20 0.79 σ$_{NLO}$ [pb] 4.17 3.02 2.26 1.36 0.88 11