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Higgs decay into two photons, dispersion relations and trace anomaly

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We examine the contribution of W boson loops to the amplitude of the process H --> \gamma \gamma within the dispersion relation approach, taking up an issue raised in this context recently. We show that the non-vanishing limit of the relevant formfactor for mW --> 0 is due to a finite subtraction induced by the value of the corresponding trace anomaly. The argument can be truned around and one thus arrives at a dispersive ("infrared") derivation of the trace anomaly.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9603320,
  title  = {Higgs decay into two photons, dispersion relations and trace anomaly},
  author = {Jiri Horejsi and Miroslav Stohr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9603320},
  year   = {2009}
}