Hadronic Higgs boson decay at order $α_s^4$ and $α_s^5$

Abstract

We compute corrections to the decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson to hadrons, to the fourth order in the strong coupling constant $α_s$. We use an effective theory in which the Higgs boson couples directly to bottom quarks and to gluons, via top quark--mediated effective couplings. Numerically, our results are of a comparable size to the previously-known "massless" contributions and complete the order $α_s^4$ corrections to the hadronic decay of the Higgs boson. In these proceedings we also provide an independent cross check of the gluonic Higgs boson decay at order $α_s^5$.

6 pages, 0 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of the XXV International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Topics (DIS2017), 3-7 April 2017, University of Birmingham, UK. V2: Reference added