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On the two-loop BSM corrections to $h\longrightarrow\gamma\gamma$ in the aligned THDM

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-10-13 v2

Abstract

We compute the two-loop BSM contributions to the hγγh\longrightarrow \gamma\gamma decay width in the aligned THDM. We adopt the simplifying assumptions of vanishing EW gauge couplings and vanishing mass of the SM-like Higgs boson, which allow us to exploit a low-energy theorem connecting the hγγh\gamma\gamma amplitude to the derivative of the photon self-energy w.r.t. the Higgs field. We briefly discuss the numerical impact of the newly-computed contributions, showing that they may be required for a precise determination of Γ[hγγ]\Gamma[h\rightarrow \gamma \gamma] in scenarios where the quartic Higgs couplings are large.

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@article{arxiv.2307.02476,
  title  = {On the two-loop BSM corrections to $h\longrightarrow\gamma\gamma$ in the aligned THDM},
  author = {Giuseppe Degrassi and Pietro Slavich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.02476},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

25 pages, 2 PDF figures; v2: discussion of decoupling added in section 3, version to appear in EPJC