Two-loop all-plus helicity amplitudes for self-dual Higgs boson with gluons via unitarity cut constraints

A bstract We present the two-loop amplitudes for a self-dual Higgs boson with up to four positive helicity gluons in the heavy top-quark limit. Because the tree amplitudes in the all-plus sector vanish, we can construct simple representations of the polylogarithmic parts of the two-loop amplitudes using four-dimensional unitarity cuts into rational one-loop and tree amplitudes. The remaining rational function ambiguity is extracted from a tensor integral reduction over finite fields. The final expressions are presented using polylogarithms up to weight two and compact rational functions of spinor-helicity products.

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Journal of High Energy Physics
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2026-03-02
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https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03(2026)011
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Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
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Two-loop all-plus helicity amplitudes for self-dual Higgs boson with gluons via unitarity cut constraints

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Journal of High Energy Physics
Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
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Two-loop all-plus helicity amplitudes for self-dual Higgs boson with gluons via unitarity cut constraints

Simon Badger, Colomba Brancaccio, Federico Ripani, Christian Biello
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A bstract We present the two-loop amplitudes for a self-dual Higgs boson with up to four positive helicity gluons in the heavy top-quark limit. Because the tree amplitudes in the all-plus sector vanish, we can construct simple representations of the polylogarithmic parts of the two-loop amplitudes using four-dimensional unitarity cuts into rational one-loop and tree amplitudes. The remaining rational function ambiguity is extracted from a tensor integral reduction over finite fields. The final expressions are presented using polylogarithms up to weight two and compact rational functions of spinor-helicity products.

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ETH Zurich (CH), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino (IT), Instituto de Física Teórica (ES), University of Turin (IT)
National Science Foundation, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
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