Two loop electroweak correction of O(G(F)M(t)**2) to the Higgs-boson decay into photons

May, 2004
15 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 702 (2004) 333-345
e-Print:
Report number:
  • DESY-04-040

Citations per year

20042009201420192024012345
Abstract:
We compute the dominant two-loop electroweak correction, of O(G_F M_t^2), to the partial width of the decay of an intermediate-mass Higgs boson into a pair of photons. We use the asymptotic-expansion technique in order to extract the leading dependence on the top-quark mass plus four expansion terms that describe the dependence on the W- and Higgs-boson masses. This correction reduces the Born result by approximately 2.5%. As a by-product of our analysis, we also recover the O(G_F M_t^2) correction to the partial width of the Higgs-boson decay to two gluon jets.
  • 12.15.Ji
  • 14.80.Bn
  • 12.15.Lk
  • Higgs particle: radiative decay
  • Feynman graph: higher-order
  • asymptotic expansion
  • Higgs particle: width
  • top: effect
  • W: effect
  • numerical calculations