We present the two-loop amplitudes for a self-dual Higgs boson with up to four positive helicity gluons in the heavy top-quark limit. Because the tree amplitudes in the all-plus sector vanish, we can construct simple representations of the polylogarithmic parts of the two-loop amplitudes using four-dimensional unitarity cuts into rational one-loop and tree amplitudes. The remaining rational function ambiguity is extracted from a tensor integral reduction over finite fields. The final expressions are presented using polylogarithms up to weight two and compact rational functions of spinor-helicity products.

Two-loop all-plus helicity amplitudes for self-dual Higgs boson with gluons via unitarity cut constraints

Simon Badger;Colomba Brancaccio;Federico Ripani
2026-01-01

Abstract

We present the two-loop amplitudes for a self-dual Higgs boson with up to four positive helicity gluons in the heavy top-quark limit. Because the tree amplitudes in the all-plus sector vanish, we can construct simple representations of the polylogarithmic parts of the two-loop amplitudes using four-dimensional unitarity cuts into rational one-loop and tree amplitudes. The remaining rational function ambiguity is extracted from a tensor integral reduction over finite fields. The final expressions are presented using polylogarithms up to weight two and compact rational functions of spinor-helicity products.
2026
2026
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http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11537v2
Higgs Production; Higher-Order Perturbative Calculations; Scattering Amplitudes; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; High Energy Physics - Theory
Simon Badger; Christian Biello; Colomba Brancaccio; Federico Ripani
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