TTP08-20 Two-Loop Electroweak Corrections to the A^0\gamma\gamma and A^0gg Couplings of the CP-Odd Higgs Boson

TTP08-20 Two-Loop Electroweak Corrections to the A^0\gamma\gamma and A^0gg Couplings of the CP-Odd Higgs Boson

TTP08-20 Two-Loop Electroweak Corrections to the A^0\gamma\gamma and A^0gg Couplings of the CP-Odd Higgs Boson

Using the asymptotic-expansion technique, we compute the dominant two-loop electroweak corrections, of O(G_F m_t2), to production and decay via a pair of photons or gluons of the CP-odd Higgs boson A0 in a two-Higgs-doublet model with low- to intermediate values of the Higgs-boson masses and ratio tan(beta)=v_2/v_1 of the vacuum expectation values. We also study the influence of a sequential heavy-fermion generation. The appearance of three gamma_5 matrices in closed fermion loops requires special care in the dimensional regularisation of ultraviolet divergences. The finite renormalisation constant for the pseudoscalar current effectively restoring the anticommutativity of the gamma_5 matrix, familiar from perturbative quantum chromodynamics, is found not to receive a correction in this order. We also revisit the dominant two-loop electroweak correction to the H → gamma gamma decay width in the standard model with a fourth fermion generation.

Joachim Brod, Frank Fugel, Bernd A. Kniehl
Nucl. Phys. B807 188-209 2009
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