Higgs Boson Production in Association with a Top-Antitop Quark Pair in Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order QCD

Stefano Catani (INFN, Sezione di Firenze and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy) ; Simone Devoto (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano and INFN, Sezione di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy) ; Massimiliano Grazzini (Physik Institut, Universität Zürich, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland) ; Stefan Kallweit (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy) ; Javier Mazzitelli (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 München, Germany; Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland) ; et al. - Show all 6 authors

The associated production of a Higgs boson with a top-antitop quark pair is a crucial process at the LHC since it allows for a direct measurement of the top-quark Yukawa coupling. We present the computation of the radiative corrections to this process at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. This is the very first computation for a 23 process with massive colored particles at this perturbative order. We develop a soft Higgs boson approximation for loop amplitudes, which enables us to reliably quantify the impact of the yet unknown two-loop contribution. At the center-of-mass energy s=13 TeV, the NNLO corrections increase the next-to-leading order result for the total cross section by about 4% and lead to a significant reduction of perturbative uncertainties.

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Published on:
16 March 2023
Publisher:
APS
Published in:
Physical Review Letters , Volume 130 (2023)
Issue 11
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.111902
arXiv:
2210.07846
Copyrights:
Published by the American Physical Society
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CC-BY-4.0

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