Exact two-loop amplitudes for Higgs plus jet production with a cubic Higgs self-coupling

Abstract

Abstract We compute the corrections to the two-loop amplitudes for gg → h, gg → hg, qg → hq, and q q ¯ $$ q\overline{q} $$ → hg due to a modified cubic Higgs self-coupling. The exact dependence on the Higgs and top-quark masses across the entire 2 → 2 phase space is determined by numerically solving a system of differential equations for the relevant master integrals. The calculated amplitudes are crucial for evaluating the impact of the considered corrections on exclusive pp → hj production at the hadronic event level. As an application, we calculate the non-universal, kinematic-dependent cubic Higgs self-coupling corrections to the Higgs-boson transverse momentum distribution in gluon-gluon fusion Higgs production for arbitrary values of the transverse momentum.

Keywords

• Anomalous Higgs Couplings
• Higgs Production
• Higgs Properties
• Higher-Order Perturbative Calculations