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We present the two-loop amplitudes for a self-dual Higgs boson with up to four positive helicity gluons in the heavy top-quark limit. Because the tree amplitudes in the all-plus sector vanish, we can construct simple representations of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Simon Badger , Christian Biello , Colomba Brancaccio , Federico Ripani

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 QCD corrections to the amplitude of the Higgs production associated with a $Z$ boson via the bottom quark-antiquark annihilation channel with a non-vanishing bottom-quark Yukawa coupling. The computation is performed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-16 Taushif Ahmed , A. H. Ajjath , Long Chen , Prasanna K. Dhani , Pooja Mukherjee , V. Ravindran

We compute the next-to-leading order virtual QCD corrections to Higgs pair production via gluon fusion. We present analytic results for the two-loop contributions to the spin-0 and spin-2 form factors in the amplitude. The reducible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Giuseppe Degrassi , Pier Paolo Giardino , Ramona Gröber

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

In this thesis, higher-order corrections to the perturbative expansions of scattering amplitudes involving the Higgs boson in the framework of Quantum Chromodynamics are evaluated, where we focus on processes that are mediated through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-28 Dominik Kara

We present numerical results for the two-loop virtual amplitude entering the NNLO corrections to Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair at the LHC, focusing, as a proof of concept of our method, on the part of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-31 Bakul Agarwal , Gudrun Heinrich , Stephen P. Jones , Matthias Kerner , Sven Yannick Klein , Jannis Lang , Vitaly Magerya , Anton Olsson

We present a fully analytic calculation of the leading-order one-loop amplitude for triple Higgs production via gluon fusion, $gg \to HHH$, retaining full dependence on the mass of the heavy quark circulating in the loop. This amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-28 John M. Campbell , Giuseppe De Laurentis , R. Keith Ellis

In high energy hadronic collisions a scalar or pseudoscalar Higgs boson, Phi=H,A, can be efficiently produced via gluon fusion, which is mediated by heavy quark loops. We here consider double real emission corrections to Phi=A production,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Francisco Campanario , Michael Kubocz , Dieter Zeppenfeld

The mass of the Higgs boson in the Split Supersymmetric Standard Model is calculated, including all one-loop threshold effects and the renormalization group evolution of the Higgs quartic coupling through two-loops. The two-loop corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-13 Michael Binger

We compute two-loop helicity amplitudes in QCD for diphoton production through quark- and gluon-initiated channels, accounting for a massive internal quark loop by keeping its full mass dependence. Using physical projectors, we directly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-06 Taushif Ahmed , Amlan Chakraborty , Ekta Chaubey , Mandeep Kaur

In this talk we discuss recent computations of the top quark mass dependence of QCD amplitudes describing Higgs boson production in gluon fusion. We compute terms in the expansion for a large top quark mass, which reduces the Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-14 Joshua Davies

We compute two-loop electroweak corrections to double Higgs boson production in gluon fusion mediated by light quarks in a fully analytical way. We determine a basis of master integrals satisfying canonical differential equations in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-03 Marco Bonetti , Philipp Rendler , William J. Torres Bobadilla

We present calculations of Higgs boson production via gluon-gluon fusion in association with one or two additional jets at next-to-leading order in QCD. The calculation of H+jet is exact in the treatment of the top-quark mass, whereas for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-30 X. Chen , A. Huss , S. P. Jones , M. Kerner , J. -N. Lang , J. M. Lindert , H. Zhang

The amplitude of double Higgs boson production by the gluon fusion, $gg \to hh$, is known to be small due to cancellation between the graphs with the boson trilinear coupling and those with the coupling to the top quark. For this reason a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-05 Xin Li , M. B. Voloshin

Future precision measurements of Higgs boson decays will determine the branching fraction for the decay into two photons with a precision at the one percent level. To fully exploit such measurements, equally precise theoretical predictions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Joshua Davies , Florian Herren

Exclusive observables involving Higgs boson in association with jets are often well suited to study the Higgs boson properties. They are rates involving cuts on the final state jets or differential distributions of rapidity, transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-20 Taushif Ahmed , Maguni Mahakhud , Prakash Mathews , Narayan Rana , V. Ravindran

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-16 Vittorio Del Duca , Giulio Falcioni

We compute the two-loop QCD corrections to $q g \to H q$ and $q \bar{q} \to H g$ amplitudes mediated by loops of nearly massless quarks. These amplitudes provide the last missing ingredient required to compute the NLO QCD corrections to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-22 Kirill Melnikov , Lorenzo Tancredi , Christopher Wever

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