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Hadronic Higgs boson decay at order $\alpha_s^4$ and $\alpha_s^5$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-06-19 v2

Abstract

We compute corrections to the decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson to hadrons, to the fourth order in the strong coupling constant αs\alpha_s. We use an effective theory in which the Higgs boson couples directly to bottom quarks and to gluons, via top quark--mediated effective couplings. Numerically, our results are of a comparable size to the previously-known "massless" contributions and complete the order αs4\alpha_s^4 corrections to the hadronic decay of the Higgs boson. In these proceedings we also provide an independent cross check of the gluonic Higgs boson decay at order αs5\alpha_s^5.

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@article{arxiv.1706.00624,
  title  = {Hadronic Higgs boson decay at order $\alpha_s^4$ and $\alpha_s^5$},
  author = {Joshua Davies and Matthias Steinhauser and David Wellmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.00624},
  year   = {2017}
}

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6 pages, 0 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of the XXV International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Topics (DIS2017), 3-7 April 2017, University of Birmingham, UK. V2: Reference added