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Two-loop mixed QCD-EW corrections to gg → Hg

Marco Bonetti, Erik Panzer, Vladimir A. Smirnov, Lorenzo Tancredi

2020Journal of High Energy Physics26 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

A bstract We compute the two-loop mixed QCD-Electroweak (QCD-EW) corrections to the production of a Higgs boson and a gluon in gluon fusion through a loop of light quarks. The relevant four-point functions with internal massive propagators are expressed as multiple polylogarithms with algebraic arguments. We perform the calculation by integration over Feynman parameters and, independently, by the method of differential equations. We compute the two independent helicity amplitudes for the process and we find that they are both finite. Moreover, we observe a weight drop when all gluons have the same helicity. We also provide a simplified expression for the all-plus helicity amplitude, which is optimised for fast and reliable numerical evaluation in the physical region.

Topics & Concepts

PhysicsGluonPropagatorHelicityFeynman diagramParticle physicsHiggs bosonAmplitudeResummationBosonQuantum electrodynamicsAlgebraic numberNumerical integrationVector mesonHamiltonian (control theory)MesonFeynman graphVector bosonFusionParticle physics theoretical and experimental studiesQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle InteractionsComputational Physics and Python Applications