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Note on Higgs Decay into Two Photons $H\to \gamma\gamma$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-04-12 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The Higgs decay HγγH\to \gamma\gamma duo to the virtual WW-loop effect is revisited in the unitary gauge by using the symmetry-preserving and divergent-behavior-preserving loop regularization method, which is realized in the four dimensional space-time without changing original theory. Though the one-loop amplitude of HγγH\to \gamma\gamma is finite as the Higgs boson in the standard model has no direct interaction with the massless photons at tree level, while it involves both tensor-type and scalar-type divergent integrals which can in general destroy the gauge invariance without imposing a proper regularization scheme to make them well-defined. As the loop regularization scheme can ensure the consistency conditions between the regularized tensor-type and scalar-type divergent irreducible loop integrals to preserve gauge invariance, we explicitly show the absence of decoupling in the limit MW/MH0M_W/M_H\to0 and obtain a result agreed exactly with the earlier one in the literature. We then clarify the discrepancy between the earlier result and the recent one obtained by R. Gastmans, S.L. Wu and T.T. Wu. The advantage of calculation in the unitary gauge becomes manifest that the non-decoupling arises from the longitudinal contribution of the WW gauge boson.

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@article{arxiv.1109.4846,
  title  = {Note on Higgs Decay into Two Photons $H\to \gamma\gamma$},
  author = {Da Huang and Yong Tang and Yue-Liang Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.4846},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

13 pages, 2 figures, references added, advantage of loop regularization method with the concept of irreduciable loop integral is emphasized, published version