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We use twistor inspired rules to compute the one-loop amplitude for a Higgs boson coupling to any number of negative helicity gluons in the large top mass limit.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. D. Badger , E. W. N. Glover

We present the two-loop matrix elements for the scattering of two gluons into two photons in QCD. These matrix elements will enter into improved estimates of the QCD background to Higgs production at the LHC when the Higgs decays into two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 Z. Bern , A. De Freitas , L. Dixon

We compute the two-loop massless QCD corrections to the amplitude of Higgs boson decay to bottom quark pair and a gluon ($H \rightarrow b + \bar{b} + g$) in the higher powers of the dimensional regularization parameter $\epsilon$. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 Pulak Banerjee , Chinmoy Dey , M. C. Kumar , Vaibhav Pandey , V. Ravindran

We present the two-loop pure gauge contribution to the gluon-gluon scattering amplitude with maximal helicity violation. Our construction of the amplitude does not rely directly on Feynman diagrams, but instead uses its analytic properties…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-27 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

We present a complete set of analytic helicity amplitudes for top quark pair production via gluon fusion at two-loops in QCD. For the first time, we include corrections due to massive fermion loops which give rise to integrals over elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-14 Simon Badger , Ekta Chaubey , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Robin Marzucca

We study the associated production of an electroweak vector boson and the Higgs boson with a jet via gluon-gluon fusion. At the leading order, these processes occur at one-loop level. The amplitudes of these one-loop processes are gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Pankaj Agrawal , Ambresh Shivaji

We consider QCD corrections to Higgs boson production through gluon-gluon fusion in hadron collisions. Using the recently evaluated two-loop amplitude for this process and the corresponding factorization formulae for soft-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 S. Catani , D. de Florian , M. Grazzini

We consider the production of a Higgs boson via gluon-fusion and its decay into two photons. We compute the NLO virtual QCD corrections to these processes in a general framework in which the coupling of the Higgs boson to the external…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 U. Aglietti , R. Bonciani , G. Degrassi , A. Vicini

We present results for the Yukawa-enhanced and Higgs self-coupling type electroweak corrections to di-Higgs production in gluon fusion. The calculation of the corresponding four-scale, two-loop amplitude is carried out retaining the exact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-18 Gudrun Heinrich , Stephen Jones , Matthias Kerner , Thomas Stone , Augustin Vestner

We present analytic results for one-loop Higgs boson + $n$-gluon amplitudes for $n\le 5$ in the full theory including all dependence on the (top) quark mass. In this paper we consider only the case where the gluons all have the same…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 R. Keith Ellis , Satyajit Seth

We compute the one-loop amplitude for a Higgs boson, a quark-antiquark pair and a pair of gluons of negative helicity, i.e. for the next-to-maximally helicity violating (NMHV) case, A(H, qbar-, q+, g-, g-). The calculation is performed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-17 Simon Badger , John M. Campbell , R. Keith Ellis , Ciaran Williams

We consider one-loop amplitudes of a Higgs boson coupled to gluons in the limit of a large top quark mass. We treat the Higgs as the real part of a complex field phi that couples to the self-dual field strengths and compute the one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-22 Simon Badger , E. W. Nigel Glover , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Ciaran Williams

We present a calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of Higgs boson pairs in gluon fusion keeping the full dependence on the mass of the top quark. The virtual corrections, involving two-loop integrals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-10 Matthias Kerner

We determine the three-loop form factor parameterising the amplitude for the production of an off-shell Higgs boson in gluon fusion in QCD with a single massive quark. The result is obtained via a numerical solution of a system of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-04 M. Czakon , M. Niggetiedt

The virtual two-loop corrections for Higgs production in gluon fusion are calculated analytically in QCD for arbitrary Higgs and quark masses. Both scalar and pseudo-scalar Higgs bosons are considered. The results are obtained by expanding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Robert Harlander , Philipp Kant

The factorisation of QCD matrix elements in the limit of two external partons becoming collinear is described by process-independent splitting amplitudes, which can be expanded systematically in perturbation theory. Working in conventional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Claude Duhr , Thomas Gehrmann , Matthieu Jaquier

We present the two-loop virtual amplitudes for the production of a top-quark pair in gluon fusion. The evaluation method is based on a numerical solution of differential equations for master integrals in function of the quark velocity and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 P. Baernreuther , M. Czakon , P. Fiedler

We report on the calculation of virtual processes contributing to the production of a Higgs boson and two jets in hadron-hadron collisions. The coupling of the Higgs boson to gluons, via a virtual loop of top quarks, is treated using an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , G. Zanderighi

We discuss the non-factorizable corrections to Higgs boson production in weak boson fusion at the Large Hadron Collider. Such corrections depend on the finite part of the two-loop virtual amplitude $q \, Q \rightarrow q^\prime \, Q^\prime +…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-16 Konstantin Asteriadis , Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Kirill Melnikov

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