Pade-Improved Estimates of Hadronic Higgs Decay Rates
| dc.creator | Elias, V. | |
| dc.creator | Chishtie, F. A. | |
| dc.creator | Steele, T. G. | |
| dc.date | 2000-04-14 | |
| dc.date | 2000-06-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:52:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:52:02Z | |
| dc.description | Asymptotic Pade-approximant methods are utilized to estimate the order $α_s^5$ contribution to the $H\to gg$ rate and the order $α_s^4$ contribution to the $H \to b \bar{b}$ rate. The former process is of particular interest because of the slow convergence evident from the three known terms of its QCD series, which begins with an order $α_s^2$ leading-order term. The order $α_s^5$ contribution to the $H \to gg$ rate is expressed as a degree-3 polynomial in $L \equiv ln (μ^2 / m_t^2 (μ))$. We find that asymptotic Pade-approximant predictions for the coefficients of $L$, $L^2$, and $L^3$ are respectively within 1%, 2%, and 7% of true values extracted via renormalization-group methods. Upon including the full set of next-order coefficients, the $H \to gg$ rate is found to be virtually scale-independent over the 0.3 $M_{H} < μ< M_t$ range of the renormalization scale-parameter $μ$. We conclude by discussing the small order $α_s^4$ contribution to the $H \to b \bar{b}$ rate, which is obtained from a prior asymptotic Pade-approximant estimate of the order $α_s^4$ contribution to the quark-antiquark scalar-current correlation function. | |
| dc.description | latex2e, 16 pages, 3 eps figures Revised version contains a summary section | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0004140 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0004140 | |
| dc.identifier | J.Phys.G26:1239-1254,2000 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1088/0954-3899/26/8/311 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/185022 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | Pade-Improved Estimates of Hadronic Higgs Decay Rates | |
| dc.type | text |