Two-loop amplitudes and master integrals for the production of a Higgs boson via a massive quark and a scalar-quark loop

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Published 23 January 2007 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Charalampos Anastasiou et al JHEP01(2007)082 DOI 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/082

1126-6708/2007/01/082

Abstract

We compute all two-loop master integrals which are required for the evaluation of next-to-leading order QCD corrections in Higgs boson production via gluon fusion. Many two-loop amplitudes for 2→1 processes in the Standard Model and beyond can be expressed in terms of these integrals using automated reduction techniques. These integrals also form a subset of the master integrals for more complicated 2→2 amplitudes with massive propagators in the loops. As a first application, we evaluate the two-loop amplitude for Higgs boson production in gluon fusion via a massive quark. Our result is the first independent check of the calculation of Spira, Djouadi, Graudenz and Zerwas. We also present for the first time the two-loop amplitude for ggh via a massive squark.

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