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Two-loop helicity amplitudes for $H+$jet production to higher orders in the dimensional regulator

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-12-07 v3

Abstract

In view of the forthcoming High-Luminosity phase of the LHC, next-to-next-to-next-to-leading (N3^3LO) calculations for the most phenomenologically relevant processes become necessary. In this work, we take the first step towards this goal for H++jet production by computing the one- and two-loop helicity amplitudes for the two contributing processes, HgggH\to ggg, HqqˉgH\to q\bar{q}g, in an effective theory with infinite top quark mass, to higher orders in the dimensional regulator. We decompose the amplitude in scalar form factors related to the helicity amplitudes and in a new basis of tensorial structures. The form factors receive contributions from Feynman integrals which were reduced to a novel canonical basis of master integrals. We derive and solve a set of differential equations for these integrals in terms of Multiple Polylogarithms (MPLs) of two variables up to transcendental weight six.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2301.10849,
  title  = {Two-loop helicity amplitudes for $H+$jet production to higher orders in the dimensional regulator},
  author = {Thomas Gehrmann and Petr Jakubčík and Cesare Carlo Mella and Nikolaos Syrrakos and Lorenzo Tancredi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.10849},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

32 pages; 3 figures, 3 tables; ancillary files with results in Mathematica format; v2 Fixed typos in Section 5 and unified the integration measure in Appendix B and the ancillary files, version accepted for publication in JHEP; v3 Fixed typos in formulas 5.5, 5.9, and A.2-A.4; in anc/, the colour layer "F2" was called "D2" by mistake; results also available at https://xjetamps.hepforge.org/