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.
Authors
- Simon Badger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8089-9209)
- Colomba Brancaccio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0916-3117)
- Federico Ripani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4935-4429)
- Christian Biello (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8745-9410)
Institutions
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino (IT)
- Instituto de Física Teórica (ES)
- University of Turin (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Published
- 2026-03-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03(2026)011
- Primary Topic
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung