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In this letter we present the results of the exact computation of contributions to the Higgs boson decay into bottom quarks that are proportional to the top Yukawa coupling. Our computation demonstrates that approximate results already…

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We compute the order $\alpha_s$ QCD corrections to the density matrix for the decay of a neutral Higgs boson $\phi$ with (in)definite CP parity into a quark antiquark pair, respectively the QED corrections for the decay into a pair of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 W. Bernreuther , A. Brandenburg , M. Flesch

We compute the leading mass corrections to the high-energy behavior of the massive quark vector form factor to three loops in QCD in the double-logarithmic approximation.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-28 Tao Liu , Alexander A. Penin , Nikolai Zerf

We compute the four-loop corrections to the Higgs-bottom vertex within massless QCD and present analytic results for all color structures. The infrared poles of the renormalized form factor agree with the predicted four-loop pattern.…

We present next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) quantum electrodynamics (QED) corrections to the production of the Higgs boson in bottom quark annihilation at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the five flavor scheme. We have systematically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-18 Ajjath A H , Pulak Banerjee , Amlan Chakraborty , Prasanna K. Dhani , Pooja Mukherjee , Narayan Rana , V. Ravindran

We compute the two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for the production of a Higgs boson in association with a bottom-quark pair at a hadron collider. We take the approximations of leading colour and work in the five flavour scheme, where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Simon Badger , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Jakub Kryś , Simone Zoia

We compute three-loop corrections to the process $gg\to HH$ originating from one-particle reducible diagrams. This requires the computation of two-loop corrections to the gluon-gluon-Higgs vertex with an off-shell gluon. We describe in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-03 Joshua Davies , Kay Schönwald , Matthias Steinhauser , Marco Vitti

We study the six classical event-shape observables in hadronic Higgs decays at next-to-leading order in QCD. To this end, we consider the decay of on-shell Higgs bosons to three partons, taking into account both the Yukawa-induced decay to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 Guglielmo Coloretti , Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder , Christian T Preuss

The Higgs boson pair production at the LHC provides a probe to the Higgs boson self-coupling. The higher-order QCD corrections in this process are sizable and must be taken into account in comparison with data. Due to the small cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-28 Hai Tao Li , Zong-Guo Si , Jian Wang , Xiao Zhang , Dan Zhao

The coupling of a pseudo-scalar Higgs boson to gluons is mediated through a heavy quark loop. In the limit of large quark mass, it is described by an effective Lagrangian that only admits light degrees of freedom. In this effective theory,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-20 Taushif Ahmed , Thomas Gehrmann , Prakash Mathews , Narayan Rana , V. Ravindran

We compute the decay rate of the Standard Model Higgs boson to bottom quarks to order $\alpha\alpha_s$. We apply the optical theorem and calculate the imaginary part of three-loop corrections to the Higgs boson propagator using asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-11 Luminita Mihaila , Barbara Schmidt , Matthias Steinhauser

We compute the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to Higgs boson production in weak boson fusion followed by its decay to a $b\bar b$ pair or to a pair of leptonically-decaying $W$ bosons. Our calculation allows us to compute…

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We present an analytic computation of the two-loop QCD corrections to $u\bar{d}\to W^+b\bar{b}$ for an on-shell $W$-boson using the leading colour and massless bottom quark approximations. We perform an integration-by-parts reduction of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-14 Simon Badger , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Simone Zoia

We compute three-loop corrections to the Higgs-gluon form factor, incorporating the top quark mass dependence. Our method is based on the combination of expansions around the top threshold and for large top quark mass, using conformal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-18 Joshua Davies , Ramona Groeber , Andreas Maier , Thomas Rauh , Matthias Steinhauser

The Higgs boson production p p (p\bar p) -> b h +X via b g -> b h at the LHC, which may be an important channel for testing the bottom quark Yukawa coupling, is subject to large supersymmetric quantum corrections. In this work the one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Junjie Cao , Guangping Gao , Robert J. Oakes , Jin Min Yang

The hadroproduction of a Higgs boson in association with a bottom-quark pair ($H b \bar b$) is commonly considered as the key process for directly probing the Yukawa interaction between the Higgs boson and the bottom quark ($y_b$). However,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-19 Davide Pagani , Hua-Sheng Shao , Marco Zaro

We calculate the two-loop QCD corrections to the production of the neutral supersymmetric Higgs bosons via the gluon fusion mechanism at hadron colliders, including the contributions of squark loops. To a good approximation, these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 S. Dawson , A. Djouadi , M. Spira

We compute three-loop QCD corrections to the scattering amplitude of a Higgs boson and three partons interfered with its tree level counterpart. Specifically, we derive our results in the generalized leading color limit. Our results are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-10 Xiang Chen , Xin Guan , Bernhard Mistlberger

The Higgs boson decay into bottom quarks is the dominant decay channel contributing to its total decay width, which can be used to measure the bottom quark Yukawa coupling and mass. This decay width has been computed up to…

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