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Hidden Analytic Relations for Two-Loop Higgs Amplitudes in QCD

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-08-26 v4 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We compute the Higgs plus two-quark and one-gluon amplitudes (HqqˉgH \rightarrow q \bar{q} g) and Higgs plus three-gluon amplitudes (H3gH \rightarrow 3g) in the Higgs effective theory with a general class of operators. By changing the quadratic Casimir CFC_F to CAC_A, the maximally transcendental parts of the HqqˉgH \rightarrow q \bar{q} g amplitudes turn out to be equivalent to that of the H3gH \rightarrow 3g amplitudes, which also coincide with the counterparts in N=4{\cal N}=4 SYM. This generalizes the so-called maximal transcendentality principle to the Higgs amplitudes with external quark states, thus to the full QCD theory. We further verify that the correspondence applies also to two-loop form factors of more general operators, in both QCD and scalar-YM theory. Another interesting relation is also observed between the planar HqqˉgH \rightarrow q \bar{q} g amplitudes and the minimal density form factors in N=4{\cal N}=4 SYM.

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@article{arxiv.1904.07260,
  title  = {Hidden Analytic Relations for Two-Loop Higgs Amplitudes in QCD},
  author = {Qingjun Jin and Gang Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.07260},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

v4: 8 pages + supplemental material; with small extension and clarifications; published version

R2 v1 2026-06-23T08:40:18.459Z