Journal of High Energy Physics (Nov 2021)

Two-loop leading-colour QCD helicity amplitudes for Higgs boson production in association with a bottom-quark pair at the LHC

  • Simon Badger,
  • Heribertus Bayu Hartanto,
  • Jakub Kryś,
  • Simone Zoia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2021)012
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2021, no. 11
pp. 1 – 36

Abstract

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Abstract 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 bottom quarks are massless while the Yukawa coupling is non-zero. We extract analytic expressions from multiple numerical evaluations over finite fields and present the results in terms of an independent set of special functions that can be reliably evaluated over the full phase space.

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