New approach to the resummation of logarithms in Higgs-boson decays to a vector quarkonium plus a photon

Geoffrey T. Bodwin, Hee Sok Chung, June-Haak Ee, and Jungil Lee
Phys. Rev. D 95, 054018 – Published 23 March 2017

Abstract

We present a calculation of the rates for Higgs-boson decays to a vector heavy-quarkonium state plus a photon, where the heavy-quarkonium states are the J/ψ and the ϒ(nS) states, with n=1, 2, or 3. The calculation is carried out in the light-cone formalism, combined with nonrelativistic QCD factorization, and is accurate at leading order in mQ2/mH2, where mQ is the heavy-quark mass and mH is the Higgs-boson mass. The calculation contains corrections through next-to-leading order in the strong-coupling constant αs and the square of the heavy-quark velocity v, and includes a resummation of logarithms of mH2/mQ2 at next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. We have developed a new method, which makes use of Abel summation, accelerated through the use of Padé approximants, to deal with divergences in the resummed expressions for the quarkonium light-cone distribution amplitudes. This approach allows us to make definitive calculations of the resummation effects. Contributions from the order-αs and order-v2 corrections to the light-cone distribution amplitudes that we obtain with this new method differ substantially from the corresponding contributions that one obtains from a model light-cone distribution amplitude [M. König and M. Neubert, J. High Energy Phys. 08 (2015) 012]. Our results for the real parts of the direct-process amplitudes are considerably smaller than those from one earlier calculation [G. T. Bodwin, H. S. Chung, J.-H. Ee, J. Lee, and F. Petriello, Phys. Rev. D 90, 113010 (2014)], reducing the sensitivity to the Higgs-boson–heavy-quark couplings, and are somewhat smaller than those from another earlier calculation [M. König and M. Neubert, J. High Energy Phys. 08 (2015) 012]. However, our results for the standard-model Higgs-boson branching fractions are in good agreement with those in M. König and M. Neubert, J. High Energy Phys. 08 (2015) 012.

  • Received 5 April 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.054018

© 2017 American Physical Society

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Particles & Fields

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Geoffrey T. Bodwin1,*, Hee Sok Chung1,†, June-Haak Ee2,‡, and Jungil Lee2,§

  • 1High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea

  • *gtb@anl.gov
  • chungh@anl.gov
  • chodigi@gmail.com
  • §jungil@korea.ac.kr

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Vol. 95, Iss. 5 — 1 March 2017

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