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Quark mass effects in ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^2)$ QCD corrections to the decay rates of intermediate Higgs bosons are studied. The total hadronic rate and the partial decay rate into bottom quarks are analyzed for the Standard (scalar) Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 K. G. Chetyrkin , A. Kwiatkowski

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

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

In most of the mass range encompassed by the limits from the direct search and the electroweak precision tests, the Higgs boson of the standard model preferably decays to bottom quarks. We present, in analytic form, the dominant two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mathias Butenschoen , Frank Fugel , Bernd A. Kniehl

We present an analytical calculation of additional real or virtual radiation of the light fermion pair in the fermionic decay of the Higgs boson $ H \to f_1\bar f_1$ for arbitrary ratios of the Higgs boson mass to the $f_1$ fermion mass.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Melnikov

We analytically calculate the dominant two-loop electroweak correction, of O(G_F^2 m_t^4), to the partial width of the decay of a Higgs boson, with mass M_H << m_t, into a bottom-quark pair, and describe the most important conceptual and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mathias Butenschoen , Frank Fugel , Bernd A. Kniehl

We present the analytic calculation of the two-loop QCD corrections to the decay width of a Higgs boson into a photon and a $Z$ boson. The calculation is carried out using integration-by-parts identities for the reduction to master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 R. Bonciani , V. Del Duca , H. Frellesvig , J. M. Henn , F. Moriello , V. A. Smirnov

A Higgs boson in the intermediate mass range is considered. An effective Lagrangian approach is used in order to evaluate the top-induced QCD corrections of order $\alpha_s^3$ to the decay into light quarks and $O(\alpha_s^4)$ corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Steinhauser

We calculate the two--loop electroweak corrections to the fermionic decay width of the Higgs boson at leading order in $m_{H}$. The sum of one--loop and two--loop radiative corrections turns out to be at 6% level over the whole range of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Adrian Ghinculov

We calculate the dominant ${\rm O}\left(G_F^2M_H^4\right)$ two-loop electroweak corrections to the fermi\-onic decay widths of a heavy Higgs boson in the Standard Model. Use of the Goldstone-boson equivalence theorem reduces the problem to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-27 Loyal Durand , Bernd A. Kniehl , Kurt Riesselmann

Using an effective potential approach, we compute two-loop radiative corrections to the MSSM lightest ${\cal CP}$-even Higgs boson mass $M_{h^0}$ to ${\cal O}(\alpha_t^2)$ for arbitrary left-right top-squark mixing and $\tan\beta$. We find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-13 Jose Ramon Espinosa , Ren-Jie Zhang

I find the three-loop corrections at leading order in QCD to the physical masses of the Higgs, W, and Z bosons in the Standard Model. The results are obtained as functions of the $\overline{\rm{MS}}$ Lagrangian parameters only, using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Stephen P. Martin

The calculation of the two-loop corrections to the partial width of an intermediate-mass Higgs boson decaying into a pair of photons is reviewed. The main focus lies on the electroweak (EW) contributions. The sum of the EW corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Frank Fugel

Results are presented for the leading two-loop contributions of O(alpha_t alpha_s) to the masses and mixing effects in the Higgs sector of the MSSM with complex parameters. They are obtained in the Feynman-diagrammatic approach using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Heinemeyer , W. Hollik , H. Rzehak , G. Weiglein

The rare decay $H\to \gamma\gamma$ is a promising detection channel for an intermediate mass Higgs boson. We compute its two-loop $O(\alpha^2 G_F m_t^2)$ correction in the standard model and find that the relative correction to the decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Yi Liao , Xiaoyuan Li

We improve the theoretical predictions for the decays of the Higgs boson to an $S$-wave vector quarkonium plus a photon by calculating the relativistic correction of order $v^2$, where $v$ is the heavy-quark velocity in the quarkonium rest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-23 Geoffrey T. Bodwin , Hee Sok Chung , June-Haak Ee , Jungil Lee , Frank Petriello

We review the status of radiative corrections to the decay rates of the Standard-Model Higgs boson in the mass range accessible at LEP~2. Specifically, we consider corrections of ${\cal O}(\alpha)$, ${\cal O}(\alpha_sG_Fm_t^2)$, and ${\cal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Bernd A. Kniehl

We present an analytical calculation of the leading three-loop radiative correction to the S-parameter in the Standard Model in the large Higgs mass limit. Numerically, S^(3) = 1.1105*g^4/(1024 pi^3)*m_H^4/M_W^4. When combined with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 R. Boughezal , J. B. Tausk , J. J. van der Bij

The Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM) predicts the existence of a light neutral Higgs boson. Once found at the LHC, its mass will immediately become a precision observable. The theoretical value of the Higgs mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Philipp Kant

In this contribution, we present our recent study on the second-order corrections of pseudo-scalar($A$) Higgs decay to three partons, at higher orders in the dimensional regulator. We have studied the one and two-loop amplitudes for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-09 Pulak Banerjee , Chinmoy Dey , M. C. Kumar , V. Ravindran