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The two-loop Higgs impact factor

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-07-16 v2

Abstract

In the HEFT, we consider the Regge limit of the two-loop amplitudes for Higgs boson production in association with a jet, expanded to NNLL accuracy. We discuss the issue of the Regge cuts versus poles in this context, showing that the former cannot contribute through three loops, due to the simplicity of the colour structure of the amplitudes. Finally, we determine for the first time the Higgs impact factor at two-loop accuracy.

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@article{arxiv.2504.06184,
  title  = {The two-loop Higgs impact factor},
  author = {Vittorio Del Duca and Giulio Falcioni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.06184},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Updated version implementing a series of comments made by the referee. Fixed typos in eq. (2.26)

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