Jul 21 – 23, 2025
Europe/Berlin timezone

Electroweak corrections to Higgs boson pair production: The light quark case

Jul 22, 2025, 9:15 AM
20m

Speaker

Philipp Rendler (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Description

We present a fully analytic computation of the two-loop electroweak corrections to double Higgs production in gluon fusion, mediated by light quarks. The calculation is performed using the method of differential equations, employing a large mass expansion to generate boundary functions. We implement the results in the Powheg-Box-V2 framework for phenomenological studies. The corrections to the differential cross section are found to be sizable, reaching up to $-15\%$ near the production threshold. Additionally, we investigate the sensitivity of these corrections to variations of the triple Higgs self-coupling $\lambda_{HHH}$.

Authors

Marco Bonetti (ITP IAP KIT) Philipp Rendler (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Dr William J. Torres Bobadilla (Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool)

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