English

Higgs decay into massive b-quarks at NNLO QCD in the nested soft-collinear subtraction scheme

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-02-19 v1

Abstract

We present a fully differential description of a decay of a scalar Higgs boson into massive b-quarks valid at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD). We work within the nested soft-collinear subtraction scheme extended to accommodate massive partons. We include the loop-induced contribution involving a Higgs coupling to a top quark. We test our calculation against results existing in the literature, comparing the predictions for the total decay width and jet rates.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1911.11524,
  title  = {Higgs decay into massive b-quarks at NNLO QCD in the nested soft-collinear subtraction scheme},
  author = {Arnd Behring and Wojciech Bizon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.11524},
  year   = {2020}
}