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Two-loop QCD corrections to Higgs radiative decay to vector quarkonium

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-09-02 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The exclusive production of J/ψJ/\psi through Higgs boson radiative decay may serve a clean channel to extracting the charm quark Yukawa coupling. We calculate the two-loop QCD corrections to HJ/ψ(Υ)+γH\rightarrow J/\psi(\Upsilon)+\gamma using an optimized nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) approach. We compute the O(αs2){\cal O}(\alpha_s^2) correction in the direct channel, where Higgs directly couples to ccˉc\bar{c}, as well as the O(αs){\cal O}(\alpha_s) correction in the indirect channel, {\it viz.}, HγγH\to\gamma^*\gamma followed by the virtual photon fragmentation into J/ψJ/\psi. Incorporating the destructive interference between the direct and indirect channels, we present to date the most accurate predictions for Higgs boson radiative decay into vector quarkonium, B(HJ/ψ+γ)=3.270.07+0.300.06+0.060.13+0.13×106\mathcal{B}(H\rightarrow J/\psi+\gamma) = 3.27_{-0.07}^{+0.30}{}^{+0.06}_{-0.06}{}_{-0.13}^{+0.13}\times 10^{-6}, and B(HΥ+γ)=1.340.31+0.750.20+0.250.05+0.05×108\mathcal{B}(H\rightarrow \Upsilon+\gamma)= 1.34_{-0.31}^{+0.75}{}^{+0.25}_{-0.20}{}^{+0.05}_{-0.05}\times 10^{-8}.

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@article{arxiv.2408.17448,
  title  = {Two-loop QCD corrections to Higgs radiative decay to vector quarkonium},
  author = {Yu Jia and Zhewen Mo and Jia-Yue Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.17448},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

12 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables

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