Top-Yukawa contributions to $pp\to b\bar{b}H$: Two-loop leading-colour amplitudes

We derive two-loop scattering amplitudes for bottom-quark pair production in association with a Higgs boson at the LHC, focusing on terms proportional to the top-quark Yukawa coupling. We treat the bottom quark as a massless parton and employ both the leading-colour and heavy-top-quark approximations. The finite remainder of the two-loop amplitude is expressed in terms of one-mass pentagon functions, and the corresponding rational coefficients are reconstructed analytically from evaluations over finite fields. The scattering processes considered in this work also constitute a subset of Higgs+2-jet production at the LHC in the heavy-top-quark approximation.

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SciPost Physics
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2026-07-27
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https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.21.1.022
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Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
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Top-Yukawa contributions to $pp\to b\bar{b}H$: Two-loop leading-colour amplitudes

Heribertus Bayu Hartanto, René Poncelet
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Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
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Top-Yukawa contributions to $pp\to b\bar{b}H$: Two-loop leading-colour amplitudes

Heribertus Bayu Hartanto, René Poncelet
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We derive two-loop scattering amplitudes for bottom-quark pair production in association with a Higgs boson at the LHC, focusing on terms proportional to the top-quark Yukawa coupling. We treat the bottom quark as a massless parton and employ both the leading-colour and heavy-top-quark approximations. The finite remainder of the two-loop amplitude is expressed in terms of one-mass pentagon functions, and the corresponding rational coefficients are reconstructed analytically from evaluations over finite fields. The scattering processes considered in this work also constitute a subset of Higgs+2-jet production at the LHC in the heavy-top-quark approximation.

SciPost PhysicsVol. 21(1)
Pohang University of Science and Technology (KR), Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (KR), Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)
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Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
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