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.
Authors
- Heribertus Bayu Hartanto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6474-7029)
- René Poncelet (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4889-9396)
Institutions
- Pohang University of Science and Technology (KR)
- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (KR)
- Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- SciPost Physics
- Published
- 2026-07-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.21.1.022
- Primary Topic
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00